Andrew Fisher (physicist)
{{Short description|British physicist (born 1965)}}
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Andrew James Fisher is Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University College London. His team is part of the Condensed Matter and Materials Physics group, and based in the London Centre for Nanotechnology (a joint venture between UCL and Imperial College, London).[http://www.london-nano.com/content/contactlcn/lcndirectory/andrewfisher/ London-nano.com] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213091042/http://www.london-nano.com/content/contactlcn/lcndirectory/andrewfisher/ |date=13 February 2010 }} profile at London Centre for Nanotechnology.
Research
His research area is in understanding the behaviour of electrons in nanostructures. Predicting the behaviour of electrons using quantum mechanics theory, to compare with experimental data. Current funded project topics include:{{Cite web |url=http://www.cmmp.ucl.ac.uk/~ajf/ |title=See current UCL profile |access-date=9 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100511194924/http://www.cmmp.ucl.ac.uk/~ajf/ |archive-date=11 May 2010 |url-status=dead }}See list of publications at UCL: http://www.cmmp.ucl.ac.uk/~ajf/publications.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100104122503/http://www.cmmp.ucl.ac.uk/~ajf/publications.html |date=4 January 2010 }}
- Quantum de-coherence and computation in condensed-phase systems
- Electrons in atomic-scale quantum wires
- Formation of molecules on interstellar dust grains
- Theory of scanning tunnelling microscopy in liquids
- Development of techniques to study coherent inelastic transport
- Organic molecules on semiconductor surfaces
Awards
Education and career
He was educated at Abingdon School from 1976 until 1983 before going to Clare College, Cambridge.{{cite web|url=https://www.abingdon.org.uk/uploads/school/files/abingdonian/1985_July_V018_N003.pdf#page=97|title=OA Notes|publisher=The Abingdonian}} Fisher lectured at UCL from October 1995. Previously he lectured at Durham University (1993–1995).
He was a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College Oxford, working in the Clarendon Laboratory of the Oxford Physics Department (1989–1993). During this period he spent a year at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory (1991–1992).
Personal life
Fisher is a violinist and is married to Alison Smart, a classical singer. He has two sons, Thomas and Hugh.{{cite web|url=http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Smart-Alison.htm |title=Alison Smart (Soprano) – Short Biography |publisher=Bach-cantatas.com |date=27 June 2007 |accessdate=9 January 2010}}
Bibliography
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- {{citation|last=Wu |first=W |title=Exchange between deep donors in semiconductors; A quantum defect approach |author2=Fisher A.J |journal=Physical Review B |volume=77 |issue=4 |date=2 January 2008 |pages=045201 |issn=1098-0121 |oclc=280148433 |doi=10.1103/physrevb.77.045201 |arxiv=0709.0268 |bibcode=2008PhRvB..77d5201W |s2cid=118666019 }}
- {{citation|author=Lin H.-C |title=Local entanglement of multidimensional continuous-variable systems |author2=Fisher A.J |journal=Physical Review A |volume=78 |issue=1 |date=25 July 2008 |pages=012349 |issn=1050-2947 |oclc=281347025 |doi=10.1103/physreva.78.012349 |arxiv=0711.3735 |bibcode=2008PhRvA..78a2349L |s2cid=118653711 }}
- {{citation |last1=Avellino |first1=M |year=2006 |title=Quantum information - Quantum communication in spin systems with long-range interactions |last2=Fisher |first2=A J |last3=Bose |first3=S |journal=Physical Review|page=12321 |volume=74 | issue = 1 |issn=1050-2947 |oclc=102328072 |doi=10.1103/physreva.74.012321|arxiv = quant-ph/0603148 |bibcode = 2006PhRvA..74a2321A |s2cid=14687540 }}
- {{citation |last=Fisher |first=AJ |year=2003 |title=Quantum computing in the solid state; the challenge of decoherence |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A |pages=1441–50 |volume=361|issue=1808|doi=10.1098/rsta.2003.1213 |pmid=12869320 |bibcode = 2003RSPTA.361.1441F |s2cid=16680416 }}
- {{citation |last1=Briggs |first1=G A D |year=1999 |title=STM experiment and atomistic modelling hand in hand; individual molecules on semiconductor surfaces |last2=Fisher |first2=A J |journal=Surface Science Reports |publisher=Amsterdam |series=Surface science reports, v. 33, nos. 1/2 |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=1 |doi=10.1016/S0167-5729(98)00004-1 |bibcode=1999SurSR..33....1B |oclc=42522937}}
- {{citation |last1=Binney |first1=J J |year=1998 |title=The theory of critical phenomena; an introduction to the renormalization group |last2=Dowrick |first2=N J |last3=Fisher |first3=A J |last4=Newman |first4=M E J |publisher=Clarendon Press |series=Oxford science publications |isbn=978-0-19-851393-3 |oclc=440655670}}
- {{citation |last1=Blöchl |first1=P E |year=1993 |title=Computations for the nano-scale |last2=Joachim |first2=C |last3=Fisher |first3=A J |author4=North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division |publisher=Dordrecht |series=NATO ASI series., Series E,, Applied sciences ;, no. 240. |isbn=978-0-7923-2360-0 |oclc=28150644 }}
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See also
References
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External links
- {{citation |last=Jones |first=Jonathan |year=2003 |title=Quantum computing: Putting it into practice |journal=Nature|publisher= Nature Publishing Group |issn=0028-0836 |doi=10.1038/421028a |volume=421 |issue=6918|pages=28–9 |bibcode = 2003Natur.421...28J |pmid=12511937|s2cid=4301706 |doi-access=free }}
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