Hélène Bouchiat

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Hélène Bouchiat (born May 8, 1958 ) is a French physicist.

Bouchiat, the daughter of the physicists Marie-Anne Bouchiat and Claude Bouchiat , studied from 1977 to 1981 at the École normal des jeunes filles and received her doctorate in 1986 at the Laboratory for Solid State Physics of the University of Paris-Süd in Orsay under Philippe Monod ( Transition du verre de spin: comportement critique et bruit magnétique ). As a post-doctoral student, she was at Bell Laboratories . In 1988 she was back at the Laboratory for Solid State Physics in Orsay, where she became Research Director of the CNRS .

She studies quantum transport in mesoscopic systems such as carbon nanotubes and DNA and molecular electronics. For example, she investigated the Josephson effect of carbon nanotubes and graphene . At the Bell Laboratories at the end of the 1980s she found evidence of permanent currents in small (mesoscopic) conductor rings in magnetic fields in the form of a flux quantum (without superconductivity). As it turned out later, this is due to the Aharonov-Bohm effect .

In 2010 she became a member of the Académie des sciences . In 1987 she received the bronze medal and the silver medal of the CNRS in 2007 and the Prix Jaffé in 1998. She is on the scientific council of the CEA .

Fonts (selection)

  • with LP Lévy, G. Dolan, J. Dunsmuir: Magnetization of mesoscopic copper rings: Evidence for persistent currents, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 64, 1990, pp. 2074-2077, PMID 10041570
  • with A. Yu Kasumov, M. Kociak, S. Guéron et B. Reulet: Proximity-Induced Superconductivity in DNA, Science, Volume 291, 2001, pp. 280-282
  • with A. Yu Kasumov, R. Deblock, M. Kociak, B. Reulet: Supercurrents Through Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, Science, Volume 284, 1999, pp. 1508-1511
  • with A. Shailos, W. Nativel, A. Kasumov, C. Collet: Proximity effect and multiple Andreev reflections in few-layer graphene, EPL (Europhysics Letters), Volume 79, 2007, p. 57008
  • with Chuan Li u. a .: Magnetic field resistant quantum interferences in Josephson junctions based on bismuth nanowires, Physical Review B, Volume 90, 2014, p. 245427 Arxiv

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Diameter around 1 micrometer, temperature around 1 degree Kelvin
personal data
SURNAME Bouchiat, Hélène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French physicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1958