Contact Information
Department of Physics525 Northwestern Avenue
West Lafayette, IN
47907-2036
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Telephone:
(765) 494-2970
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(765) 494-0706
Leonid Rokhinson
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Associate Professor of Physicsleonid@purdue.eduOffice: Physics 60 Telephone: (765) 494-3014 Lab: Physics B47 Telephone: (765) 494-5513 Fax: (765) 494-0706 Research Group Website |
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
- Magnetic materials and devices
- Quantum information processing
- Topologically non-trivial states of matter
- Nanofabrication
- Novel materials and devices
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, X. Liu, J. K. Furdyna, "Observation of the fractional ac Josephson effect: the signature of Majorana particles", arXiv:1204.4212
- Sunanda P. Koduvayur, Yuli Lyanda-Geller, Sergei Khlebnikov, Gabor Csathy, Michael J. Manfra, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Kenneth W. West, and Leonid P. Rokhinson, "Effect of strain on stripe phases in the Quantum Hall regime", Physical Review Letters 106, 016804 (2011)
- A. Chernyshov, M. Overby, X. Liu, J.K. Furdyna, Y. Lyanda-Geller and L.P. Rokhinson, "Evidence for reversible control of magnetization in a ferromagnetic material by means of spin-orbit magnetic field", Nature Physics 5, 656 - 659 (2009)
- 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)