Professor Yuri Pashkin FInstP, FHEA
ProfessorResearch Overview
I joined Lancaster University in 2011 to take up a position of Chair of Experimental Condensed Matter Physics. Prior to this I was a Principal Researcher at the research laboratory of NEC Corporation in Tsukuba (Japan).
From 1991 to 1997 I was a visiting scientist at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Germany) and University of Jyväskylä (Finland).
My research interests include quantum computing with superconducting nanocircuits, quantum metrology with Coulomb blockade devices and nanoelectromechanical systems.
PhD Supervision Interests
We are seeking PhD students to study quantum phenomena in superconducting and hybrid devices. Due to their unique properties, such devices allow the control at the level of single charge or flux quantum, single photon and single phonon, and are promising for applications in sensing, metrology and quantum information processing. Examples of research projects include, but are not limited to: 1. Charge pumping by nanoelectronic hybrid circuits 2. Detection of the quantum of mechanical motion by an artificial atom 3. Interaction of surface acoustic waves with a superconducting artificial atom 4. Probing quantum fluids with nanomechanical resonators The work is experimental and involves nanofabrication of superconducting and hybrid circuits in the Quantum Technology Centre’s cleanroom and measurements at mK temperatures in a dilution refrigerator. We work in close collaboration with the ULT group. We also collaborate with theorists, both at Lancaster and abroad. You are expected to have a strong interest and preferably knowledge in some of the fields: - quantum physics, superconductivity and superfluidity, Josephson junction devices, Coulomb blockade, quantum optics and quantum information; - low-noise measurements and microwave engineering; - automation of the experiment, data acquisition using Python or MatLab; - cryogenic techniques; - nanofabrication.
ParaPara: A quantum parametric amplifier using quantum paraelectricity
01/09/2022 → 31/08/2024
Research
Engineering superconducting artificial media - Searbhán Patton
01/09/2020 → 29/02/2024
Research
ParaWave: Josephson traveling wave parametric amplifier and its application for metrology
01/07/2018 → 31/12/2021
Research
MSI: Quantum sensing by proximised structures
01/04/2018 → 31/08/2020
Research
MSI: Driving a mechanical resonator by single electrons
01/03/2018 → 31/08/2020
Research
Development of Cryofree Ultra Low Temperature Environment for Quantum Enhanced Sensors
01/05/2015 → 30/04/2016
Research
Quantum Sensing for the Hidden Sector (QSHS)
01/01/1900 → …
Research
Nanomechanics-based thermodynamics: from molecules to mesoscopic phonons
Examination
7th IoP Superconductivity Summer School
Other
Field effect in superconductors: Reality or Delusion?
Invited talk
Stony Brook University
Visiting an external academic institution
Effect of an intense electric field on superconducting coplanar waveguide resonators
Invited talk
6th IoP Superconductivity Summer School
Other
Effect of an intense electric field on superconducting coplanar waveguide resonators
Invited talk
Royal Society (External organisation)
Membership of committee
On the origin of the electrostatic field effect in superconductors
Invited talk
5th IoP Superconductivity Summer School
Other
4th IoP Superconductivity Summer School
Other
Institute of Physics (External organisation)
Member of an organisation
Quantum Nanotechnology
- Low Temperature Physics
- Quantum Nanotechnology
- Quantum Technology Centre