Moti Heiblum

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Moti Heiblum

Mordehai "Moti" Heiblum ( Hebrew מוטי הייבלום- Also written Moty Heiblum , born 1947 in Israel ) is an Israeli electrical engineer and physicist who deals with mesoscopic solid state physics.

Heiblum studied electrical engineering at the Technion with a bachelor's degree in 1973 and at Carnegie-Mellon University with a master's degree in 1974 and received his doctorate in 1978 from the University of California, Berkeley . He then went to the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, where he stayed for twelve years and became manager of the Microstructure Physics group. From 1990 he was at the Weizmann Institute , where he founded the Solid State Physics department and headed it from 2007 to 2012. He also founded and directed the Braun Center for Submicron Research at the Weizmann Institute. In 2000 he became Alex and Ida Sussman Professor of Submicron Studies.

Heiblum was, among other things, visiting scholar at the Vienna University of Technology, Stanford University and the Hewlett Packard research laboratories in Palo Alto.

He investigates the quantum behavior of electrons in miniaturized circuits (mesoscopic range between quantum mechanical and classical behavior). Among other things, he investigated electron interference (reference to the wave behavior of electrons) such as Aharonov-Bohm rings, implementation of Fabry-Perot and Mach-Zehnder interferometers with electrons, shot noise (reference to particle behavior of electrons, in his group for the determination of fractional charges in QHE uses) and the fractional quantum Hall effect (QHE), where he detected neutral edge currents (they only transport energy and no charge, i.e. the electronic system behaves as if the charge disappears). In his laboratory records were also set in the purity of semiconductor crystals, which allowed the study of two-dimensional electron gases with high mobility, which allowed the observation of the fractional QHE with a rich structure of fractional charge states.

He chaired a national committee in Israel to assess the state of the electronics industry.

In 2013 he received the EMET Prize for pioneering contributions to the understanding of solid state physics and his groundbreaking work on phase measurement in electron interference, the behavior of fractional charges and the collapse of quantum behavior in miniaturized electronic systems (laudation). He is a lifetime fellow of the IEEE , a fellow of the American Physical Society (1990), and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences (2008). In 2008 he received the Rothschild Prize in Physics.

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  1. ↑ For his pioneering contribution to the understanding of condensed matter physics, and for his unique, pathbreaking studies of phase measurements in electron interference, the behavior of fractional charges, and the collapse of the quantum behavior of electrons in miniaturized electronic systems , appreciation on pages of the EMET Prize
  2. ↑ APS Fellow Archive. Retrieved July 27, 2020 .
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SURNAME Heiblum, Moti
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heiblum, Moty; Heiblum, Mordehai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Israel