Carlo Beenakker

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Carlo Beenakker

Carlo Willem Joannes Beenakker , also cited by CWJ Beenakker , (born June 9, 1960 ) is a Dutch physicist. He deals theoretically with quantum transport in solids.

Life

Beenakker, the son of the physicist Jan Beenakker , studied physics at the University of Leiden , where he graduated in 1982 and received his doctorate in 1984 under Peter Mazur . The dissertation On transport properties of concentrated suspensions received the CJ Kok Prize. In 1985 he was a post-doctoral student at Stanford University and the University of California, Santa Barbara . From 1986 to 1991 he was a scientific member of the Philips research laboratories in Eindhoven . He has been a professor at the University of Leiden since 1992, after having been an external professor in 1991. He is at the Lorentz Institute.

In 1988, together with Henk van Houten and BJ van Wees, he found quantum point contacts in which 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 things, of quantum transport with random matrices.

In 1999 he received the Spinoza Prize . In 2002 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Society for Art and Science. In 2003 he received the Physica Prize, in 2005 he gave the Huygens lecture at the NWO and in 2006 he received the Akzo Nobel Science Award. In 1993 he received the Royal / Shell Prize and in 2015 became a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion .

Carlo Beenakker married Mayke EHC Prinsen, the daughter of Guus Prinsen (born July 30, 1927 in Rotterdam, † July 27, 2003 in Oegstgeest) and his wife Cecile Reiring. Jan Willem Maria Beenakker (* August 1984 in Leiden), Karel Beenakker, Thomas Beenacker and Margaretha (Magreet) Maria Theodora Beenacker (* February 1995 in Leiden) are known from his children.

Fonts

  • with Henk van Houten Quantum transport in semiconductor nanostructures , Solid State Physics, Volume 44, 1991 (Editor Ehrenreich, Turnbull), Academic Press, pp. 1–228, Arxiv Preprint
  • with H. van Houten, BJ van Wees Quantum point contacts , Semiconductors and Semimetals, Volume 35, 1992, pp. 9-112
  • with H. van Houten Quantum points contacts , Physics Today, July 1996, preprint at Arxiv
  • with BJ van Wees, 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, Vol. 60, 1988, pp. 848-850, abstract
  • Random matrix theory of quantum transport , Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 69, 1997, p. 731, Arxiv Preprint

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beenakker, de Jong Shot noise in mesoscopic systems , in Sohn, Kouwenhoven, Schoen Mesoscopic electron transport , Kluwer 1997, preprint
  2. ↑ Beenakker, van Houten, Staring Coulomb blockade oscillations in semiconductor nanostructures , in Grabert, Devoret (ed.) Single charge tunneling , Plenum 1992, preprint
  3. ↑ Beenakker Three universal Mesoscopic Josephson Effects in Ando, Fukuyama (ed.) Transport phenomena in Mesoscopic systems , Springer, 1992, Preprint
  4. ↑ Beenakker Photon statistics of a random laser , in JP Fouque (Ed.) Diffuse waves in complex media , Kluwer 1999, Preprint
  5. ↑ Beenakker, Patra Photon shot noise , Mod. Phys. Letters, B, Vol. 13, 1999, p. 337, preprint
  6. ↑ Beenakker Dynamics of localization in a waveguide , in Soukoulus (Ed.) Photonic crystals and light localization in the 21st century , Kluwer 2001, Preprint
  7. ↑ Beenakker Andreev reflection and Klein tunneling in Graphen , Rev. Mod. Phys., Volume 80, 2008, p. 1337, preprint
  8. ↑ Beenakker Andreev billards , Lecture Notes in Physics, Volume 667, 2005, pp 131
  9. ^ Beenakker, MJM de Jong Andreev Reflection In Ferromagnet-Superconductor Junctions , Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 74, 1995, p. 1657, Preprint , MJM de Jong, CWJ Beenakker Why does a metal-superconductor junction have a resistance? , in Kulik, Ellialtioglu (Ed.) Quantum mesoscopic phenomena and mesoscopic devices in microelectronics , Kluwer 2000, Preprint
  10. ^ Beenakker Search for Majorana fermions in superconductors , Ann. Rev. Condensed Matter Physics 2011, Preprint
  11. ↑ Beenakker Electron Hole Entanglement in the Fermi sea , Proc. Enrico Fermi School, Volume 162, IOS Press 2006, Preprint
  12. ↑ Beenakker Application of random matrix theory to condensed matter and optical physics , in Akemann, Baik, Di Francesco (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Random Matrix Theory, 2011, Preprint
personal data
SURNAME Beenakker, Carlo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beenakker, Carlo Willem Joannes (full name); Beenakker, CWJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1960