Amir Yacoby

Materials/Devices

Amir Yacoby

Specially Appointed Professor

Condensed matter PhysicsQuantum sensingQuantum information

Research Projects

  • A robust scanning diamond sensor for nanoscale imaging with single nitrogen-vacancy centres.

  • Imaging the Spin Texture of a Skyrmion Under Ambient Conditions Using an Atomic-Sized Sensor

  • Nanometre-scale probing of spin waves using single-electron spins

  • Subnanometre resolution in three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging of individual dark spins

1994 - 1996

Postdoctoral Fellow, Bell Labs, Lucent　Technologies, USA
1996 - 1997

Member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
1997 - 2002

Assistant Professor, Weizmann institute of Science, Israel
2002 – 2006

Associate Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
2006 - 2011

Professor of Physics, Harvard University
2011 -

Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Harvard University
2018 -

Specially Appointed Professor, School of
Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2014

Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
2005

J. R. Petta, A. C. Johnson, J. M. Taylor, E. A. Laird, A. Yacoby, M. D. Lukin, C. M. Marcus, M. P. Hanson, A. C. Gossard, “Coherent Manipulation of Coupled
Electron Spins in Semiconductor Quantum Dots”, Science 309, 2180 
2008

J. R. Maze, P. L. Stanwix, J. S. Hodges, S. Hong, J. M. Taylor, P. Cappellaro, L. Jiang, A.S. Zibrov, A. Yacoby, R. Walsworth and M. D. Lukin, “Nanoscale magnetic sensing with an individual electronic spin qubit in diamond”, Nature 455, 644 (2008).
2012

M. D. Shulman, O. E. Dial, S. P. Harvey, H. Bluhm, V. Umansky, and A. Yacoby, “Demonstration of Entanglement of Electrostatically Coupled Singlet-Triplet Qubits”,
Science 336, 202 (2012).
2014

A. Kou, B. E. Feldman, A. J. Levin, B. I. Halperin, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, and A. Yacoby, “Electron-hole asymmetric integer and fractional quantum Hall effect in
bilayer graphene”, Science 345, 55 (2014).

S. Hart, H. Ren, T. Wagner, P. Leubner, M. Mühlbauer, C. Brüne, H. Buhmann, L. W. Molenkamp and A. Yacoby, “Induced superconductivity in the quantum spin
Hall edge”, Nature Physics 10, 638 (2014).