Professor Jonathan Prance FHEA
Professor of Experimental PhysicsResearch 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.
PhD Supervision Interests
Please get in touch if you are interested in a PhD in the area of low temperature nanoelectronics. Projects are available on a range of topics, including superconductor-based quantum sensors, hybrid graphene/superconducting devices, ultralow temperature thermometry and on-chip refrigeration.
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
All Publications
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.
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Low Temperature Physics, Quantum Nanotechnology
Low Temperature Physics
Low Temperature Physics, Quantum Nanotechnology
Low Temperature Physics, Quantum Nanotechnology
Low Temperature Physics, Quantum Nanotechnology
Low Temperature Physics, Quantum Nanotechnology
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