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| Name: | Akkermans Eric |
| Date and place of birth: | July 7, 1960, Nice, France. |
| Citizenship: | Israeli + French |
| Status: | Married +3 |
| | Yonathan (06/02/92), Daniel (09/05/95) and Noam (03/12/98) |
Address: | |
| Professional: | Department of Physics, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology,
32000, Haifa, Israel.
Tel. 972-4-8293521,
Fax. 972-4-8295755
e-mail: eric@physics.technion.ac.il |
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| Personal: | Hakeshet street 3, 34385, Haifa, Israel. |
Academic degrees: | PhD of the Grenoble university (Joseph Fourier) in condensed matter physics (under the supervision of Prof. Roger Maynard): Wave propagation in disordered media, Diploma cum laude (1986) |
Academic positions: | I did my PhD in Grenoble at the CNRS (centre de recherches sur les tres basses temperatures). Then, I moved to the Laue-Langevin institute (Grenoble) to work as a postdoc in the group of theoretical physics led by Prof. Philippe Nozieres. In 1987, I received a tenured position at the CNRS (centre de recherches sur les tres basses temperatures) in Grenoble. In 1991, I joined the physics department at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) where I am presently a professor of physics. |
Scientific milestones and achievements | |
| Quantization of heat transport | We have proposed that at low enough temperatures, the thermal transport due to phonons propagating in a quasi-one dimensional ballistic waveguide is quantized in units of a quantum of thermal conductance. The thermal conductance in this temperature regime is universal and at higher temperatures, it has giant fluctuations (See in the publication list: 2.2 , 2.3, 2.4). The quantum of thermal conductance has been subsequently measured (See Schwab K, Henriksen EA, Worlock JM, et al. Measurement of the quantum of thermal conductance NATURE 404: (6781) 974-977 APR 27 2000). |
| Coherent backscattering of light | Many of the coherent effects that exist in mesoscopic electronic systems can be related to an enhanced return probablity. Weak localization corrections to the electrical conductance leading eventually to the Anderson metal-insulator transition constitute a well-known example. We have proposed a direct a way to observe an enhanced return probability using light instead of electrons. This has the advantage to lead directly to the angular coherent backscattering rather than its integral in transport. The enhancement of the backscattered light by a disordered medium is a direct consequence of interferences in multiple scattering (see 3.1). It occurs within a cone of angular width proportional to the inverse elastic mean free path and of height exactly twice as large as the incoherent background. Our original prediction of this effect, has launched a number of experiments towards its observation (for the first two observations see : ”Weak Localization and Coherent Backscattering of Photons in Disordered Media” P.-E. Wolf and G. Maret Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 2696-2699 (1985) and ”Observation of Weak Localization of Light in a Random Medium” M. P. V. Albada and A. Lagendijk Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 2692-2695 (1985)). Since then, this effect is routinely observed and used as a precursor of strong localization in a large variety of disordered systems (classical and quantum) and of waves (light, acoustics, mechanical...). See in the publication list: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.6, 3.7 |
| Electronic quantum mesoscopic physics | See section 4 in the publication list. |
| Vortices in mesoscopic superconductors | See sections 5 and 6 in the publication list. |
| Mesoscopic physics of photons and cold atoms | See section 7 in the publication list. |
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