Professor Jonathan Prance FHEA

Professor of Experimental Physics

Research Overview

My research concerns the low temperature properties of nanoscale structures, including quantum dots, graphene and 2D materials, superconducting devices, and nanomechanical resonators. At low enough temperatures, quantum mechanical phenomena dominate the behaviour of these systems. I am interested in how this can be exploited to build new solid-state devices to advance computation, metrology, and sensing. I am currently working on techniques to reach temperatures below 1 millikelvin inside nanoscale devices.

Selected Publications

Progress in cooling nanoelectronic devices to ultra-low temperatures
Jones, A., Scheller, C., Prance, J., Kalyoncu, Y., Zumbühl, D., Haley, R. 1/12/2020
Review article

Microkelvin electronics on a pulse-tube cryostat with a gate Coulomb-blockade thermometer
Samani, M., Scheller, C., Sedeh, O.S., Zumbühl, D., Yurttagül, N., Grigoras, K., Gunnarsson, D., Prunnila, M., Jones, A., Prance, J., Haley, R. 19/09/2022 In: Physical Review Research. 4, 3, 12 p.
Journal article

Quantum oscillations of the critical current and high-field superconducting proximity in ballistic graphene
Ben Shalom, M., Zhu, M.J., Fal'ko, V.I., Mishchenko, A., Kretinin, A.V., Novoselov, K.S., Woods, C.R., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Geim, A.K., Prance, J.R. 04/2016 In: Nature Physics. 12, 4, 5 p.
Letter

Nanoelectronic primary thermometry below 4 mK
Bradley, D.I., George, R.E., Gunnarsson, D., Haley, R.P., Heikkinen, H., Pashkin, Y., Penttilä, J., Prance, J.R., Prunnila, M., Roschier, L., Sarsby, M. 27/01/2016 In: Nature Communications. 7, 6 p.
Journal article

Electronic Refrigeration of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
Prance, J.R., Smith, C.G., Griffiths, J.P., Chorley, S.J., Anderson, D., Jones, G.A.C., Farrer, I., Ritchie, D.A. 10/04/2009 In: Physical review letters. 102, 14, p. -. 4 p.
Journal article

Quantum control and process tomography of a semiconductor quantum dot hybrid qubit
Kim, D., Shi, Z., Simmons, C.B., Ward, D.R., Prance, J., Koh, T.S., Gamble, J.K., Savage, D.E., Lagally, M.G., Friesen, M., Coppersmith, S.N., Eriksson, M.A. 3/07/2014 In: Nature. 511, 7508, 5 p.
Letter

Talent and Research Stabilisation Fund 2022 (Manus Hayne)
21/11/2022 → 31/03/2023
Research

LANCQTFP: Quantum Enhanced Superfluid Technologies for Dark Matter and Cosmology
01/12/2020 → 31/03/2025
Research

GrapheneCore3: SGA-FET-GRAPHENE-2019
01/04/2020 → 30/09/2023
Research

H2020 : European Microkelvin Platform (EMP)
01/01/2019 → 31/12/2023
Research

ParaWave: Josephson traveling wave parametric amplifier and its application for metrology
01/07/2018 → 31/12/2021
Research

MSI: Driving a mechanical resonator by single electrons
01/03/2018 → 31/08/2020
Research

Ultralow temperature thermometry with nanoscale devices
01/07/2016 → 30/06/2018
Research

H2020: GrapheneCore1
01/04/2016 → 31/03/2018
Research

Development of Cryofree Ultra Low Temperature Environment for Quantum Enhanced Sensors
01/05/2015 → 30/04/2016
Research

FP7: NANOTEMP
01/08/2013 → 31/07/2017
Research

Johnson Matthey visit to Lancaster University.
Types of Business and Community - Hosting of external, non-academic visitor

  • Low Temperature Physics
  • Quantum Nanotechnology
  • Quantum Technology Centre