Alexander R. Hamilton

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birth_date = 1967
birth_place = London, UK
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residence = Australia
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fields = Physicist
workplaces = University of New South Wales
alma_mater = University of London
University of Cambridge
doctoral_advisor = Michael Pepper
Michael J. Kelly
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Alexander Rudolph Hamilton (born 1967) is with the School of Physics at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He is notable in the area of experimental condensed matter physics, particularly semiconductor nanofabrication and the study of quantum effects in nanometer scale electronic devices at ultra-low temperatures.

Education

He obtained his BSc in physics from the University of London in 1988, and a PhD, under Michael Pepper and Michael J. Kelly, from the University of Cambridge in 1993 with a thesis entitled "Low Dimensional Transport in Back-Gated Heterostructures." [http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=112984]

Career

He was awarded an EPSRC postdoctoral fellowship to continue his work at the Cavendish Laboratory, which led to new understandings of electrical conduction in highly correlated low-dimensional quantum systems. Hamilton moved to the University of New South Wales in 1999, where he was one of the founding members of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology. He managed the quantum measurement program in the centre from 2000-2005, developing techniques for controlling and reading out quantum information in silicon quantum computer devices. In 2005 he moved full time to the School of Physics, where he leads the Quantum Electronic Devices group with Dr. Adam Micolich, working on quantum transport in semiconductor nanostructures (in particular electron and hole transport in GaAs quantum wires and dots). He was awarded the Australasian Science Prize in 2006, a COSMOS 'Bright Sparks' award in 2007, and an ARC Professorial Fellowship in the same year.

See also

* "Quantum Aspects of Life" (book)

References

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External links

* [http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=112984 Hamilton's math genealogy]
* [http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~arh/background/Biographical/CV%20current.pdf Hamilton's CV]
* [http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~arh/ Hamilton's homepage]
* [http://forum.ausnano.net.au/member.php?u=45 Hamilton's ARCNN profile]
* [http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/1625 Hamilton interview]