Dr. Chris Ford

Ford, C.

University Reader
Fellow of Girton College

Group: Semiconductor Physics

Address:
Room 330, Mott Building,
Cavendish Laboratory,
JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge CB3 0HE.
Tel: +44 (0)1223 337486
Email: cjbf "at" cam.ac.uk

Group Secretary / Administrator / Personal Assistant:
Emma Faid
Tel: +44 (0)1223 337482
Fax: +44 (0)1223 337271
Email: admin "at" sp.phy.cam.ac.uk

Biography:

Chris Ford completed his MA and PhD at the University of Cambridge, before working at the IBM T J Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, USA, for a year with Alan Fowler. He returned to Cambridge to a Research Fellowship at Girton College, and then became a lecturer in the Cavendish Laboratory. He is now a Reader in Quantum Electronics in the Semiconductor Physics Group. His expertise includes device fabrication, electron-beam lithography, low-temperature measurement, and the physics of electron transport in low-dimensional systems, particularly related to interactions.

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Research Interests:

Dr. Ford heads the group's experimental programme investigating the use of surface acoustic waves passing through narrow channels to move and process quantum bits ("qubits") of information. He is currently working on the following topics, among others:

  • quantum computing with Surface Acoustic Waves (SAWs)
  • Moving single-electron quantum dots carried by Surface Acoustic Waves (SAWs)
  • The Luttinger liquid and other interaction effects in 1D wires
  • Spin-related interactions in single antidots
  • transport through individual molecules

In the past, Dr. Ford has also worked on, for example,

  • mesoscopic effects in hole gases
  • fractional quantum Hall effect, particularly edge states in the fractional quantum Hall regime
  • 1D wires in undoped electron and hole gases
  • the Aharonov-Bohm effect
  • Coulomb Blockade
  • the quenching of the Hall effect

Research Group - Semiconductor Physics.

Selected Publications:

Here is a list of most of my publications.