Leonid Rokhinson

Associate Professor of Physics
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Office: Physics 60 Telephone: (765) 494-3014
Lab: Physics B47 Telephone: (765) 494-5513
Fax: (765) 494-0706

B.S., 1990 St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University (Russia)
Ph.D., 1996 State University of New York at Stony Brook

Research Interests

· Electron transport in mesoscopic systems
· Spintronics and spin interactions
· Quantum information processing
· Molecular electronics
· Nanofabrication
· Novel materials and devices

Teaching

Fall 2006: PHYS 218: General Physics
Spring 2007: PHYS 670F: Advanced Physics Laboratory

Awards and Honors

· NSF CAREER Award, 2004

Professional Experience

· Research Staff, Princeton University, 1999-2002
· Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University, 1996-1999

Selected Publications

L.P. Rokhinson, L.N. Pfeiffer and K.W. West,"Spontaneous spin polarization in quantum point contacts", , Physicsl Review Letters 96, 156602 (2006)
L.P. Rokhinson, V. Larkina, Y.B. Lyanda-Geller, L.N. Pfeiffer and K.W. West,"Spin separation in cyclotron motion", Physicsl Review Letters 93, 146601 (2004)
L. P. Rokhinson, L. J. Guo, S. Y. Chou, D. C. Tsui, E. Eisenberg, R. Berkovits, and B.L. Altshuler "Coherent electron transport in a Si quantum dot dimer", Physical Review Letters 88, 186801 (2002)
L. P. Rokhinson, L. J. Guo, S. Y. Chou, and D. C. Tsui, "Magnetically-induced reconstructions of the ground state in a few-electron Si quantum dot", Physical Review Letters 87, 166802 (2001)
L. P. Rokhinson, L. J. Guo, S. Y. Chou, and D. C. Tsui, "Spin transitions in a small Si quantum dot", Physical Review B 63, 035321 (2001)

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Other interests

· photogallery of Denali (Mt. McKinnley) summit, 2006