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Carbon Electronics

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Surface acoustic waves (SAWs)

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  • A single-photon production line driven by a sound wave

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1D Transport

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  • Electrons take the fast and slow lanes at the same time
  • Spin-charge separation in quantum wires
  • Testing theories that go beyond the regime of applicability of Luttinger-liquid theory
  • Incipient formation of an electron lattice in quantum wires

Fundamentals of low-dimensional semiconductor systems

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  • Measuring spin-charge separation and high-energy effects in an interacting 1D Luttinger Liquid
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