Carlo Beenakker

Carlo Beenakker, CWJ Beenakker also cited (* 1960) is a Dutch physicist. It deals with theoretical quantum transport in solids.

Beenaker studied physics at Leiden University, where he graduated in 1982, he made ​​and received his doctorate at Peter Mazur 1984. The dissertation on transport properties of Concentrated suspensions received the CJ Kok price. In 1985, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. 1986 to 1991 he was a scientific member of the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven. Since 1992 he is professor at the University of Leiden, from 1991 after he had an external professor. He is the Lorentz Institute.

In 1988, he was with Henk van Houten and BJ van Wees quantum point contacts, where the conductivity is quantized. He also dealt with other mesoscopic quantum mechanical phenomena (electronic shot noise, Coulomb blockade, mesoscopic superconductivity), random lasers, photon shot noise, dynamics of localization in waveguides, graphs, quantum chaos in mesoscopic billiards, Andreev reflection, search of Majorana fermions in superconductors, quantum entanglement in solids and description, among other quantum transport with random matrices.

In 1999 he was awarded the Spinoza Prize. He became a member of the Royal Dutch Society for Art and Science in 2002. In 2003 he received the Physica price, 2005, he held the Huygens lecture of the NWO and 2006 he received the Akzo Nobel Science Award. In 1993 he received the Royal / Shell Prize.

Writings

  • With Henk van Houten, Quantum transport in semiconductor nanostructures, Solid State Physics, Volume 44, 1991 (Editor Ehrenreich, Turnbull ), Academic Press, p.1 -228, Arxiv preprint
  • With H. van Houten, BJ van Wees quantum point contacts, Semiconductors and Semimetals, Volume 35, 1992, pp. 9-112
  • H. van Houten, Quantum points contacts, Physics Today, May 1996, Preprint at Arxiv
  • BJ van Wees with, H. van Houten, JG Williamson, Leo Kouwenhoven, D. van der Marel, CT Foxon, Quantized conductance of point contacts in a two- dimensional electron gas, Phys. Rev. Letters, Volume 60, 1988, pp. 848-850, Abstract
  • Random matrix theory of quantum transport, Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol 69, 1997, pp. 731, Arxiv preprint
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