I will describe my quantum (hopefully not random) walk in the area of low temperature nanoscience, with the hope to elucidate “bizarre” quantum phenomena. I will discuss several experiments that are underway in my laboratory: these include
– our effort to detect bizarre particles that are neither boson or fermion,
– the Coulomb drag of electrons in two closed-pack quantum wires, separated by only ~15 nm,
– a nano-engineered quantum faucet (for real fluids!) and
– an extreme camera that can take pretty pictures in 16 tesla and at a temperature of 100 mK.
It’s a lot of (quantum) fun!
Department of Physics, McGill University