James P. Eisenstein

Eisenstein received a doctoral degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1983 he had been member of staff at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, until in 1996 he moved to take up a professorial post at California Institute of Technology.

Eisenstein is recognised as a leader in experimental studies of low-dimensional systems in high magnetic field, low temperature set-ups. One of his seminal achievements is the first experimental realisation of the ν=5/2 fractional quantum Hall state:[1] this is the only known quantum hall state labelled by an even denominator quantum number and it is believed in the condensed matter physics community that this state shows exotic non-abelian quantum statistics and other topological features.[2] The ν=5/2 fractional quantum hall state is widely cited as a candidate for topological quantum computing.[3]

Eisenstein has received many accolades of the condensed matter physics community. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Physical Society. He is also a recipient the 2007 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize "for fundamental experimental and theoretical research on correlated many-electron states in low dimensional systems." He has served on NRC committees and panels such as the Solid State Sciences Committee or the DCMP Executive Committee.

• Willett, R.; Eisenstein, J. P.; Störmer, H. L.; Tsui, D. C.; Gossard, A. C.; English, J. H. (1987-10-12). "Observation of an even-denominator quantum number in the fractional quantum Hall effect" (PDF). Physical Review Letters. American Physical Society (APS). 59 (15): 1776–1779. Bibcode:1987PhRvL..59.1776W. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.59.1776. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 10035326.
• Lilly, M. P.; Cooper, K. B.; Eisenstein, J. P.; Pfeiffer, L. N.; West, K. W. (1999-01-11). "Evidence for an Anisotropic State of Two-Dimensional Electrons in High Landau Levels" (PDF). Physical Review Letters. American Physical Society (APS). 82 (2): 394–397. arXiv:cond-mat/9808227. Bibcode:1999PhRvL..82..394L. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.82.394. ISSN 0031-9007. S2CID 17531735.
• Spielman, I. B.; Eisenstein, J. P.; Pfeiffer, L. N.; West, K. W. (2000-06-19). "Resonantly Enhanced Tunneling in a Double Layer Quantum Hall Ferromagnet" (PDF). Physical Review Letters. American Physical Society (APS). 84 (25): 5808–5811. arXiv:cond-mat/0002387. Bibcode:2000PhRvL..84.5808S. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.84.5808. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 10991060.
• Eisenstein, J. P.; MacDonald, A. H. (2004). "Bose–Einstein condensation of excitons in bilayer electron systems". Nature. Springer Nature. 432 (7018): 691–694. arXiv:cond-mat/0404113. Bibcode:2004Natur.432..691E. doi:10.1038/nature03081. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 15592403. S2CID 1538354.
• Gramila, T. J.; Eisenstein, J. P.; MacDonald, A. H.; Pfeiffer, L. N.; West, K. W. (1991-03-04). "Mutual friction between parallel two-dimensional electron systems" (PDF). Physical Review Letters. American Physical Society (APS). 66 (9): 1216–1219. Bibcode:1991PhRvL..66.1216G. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.66.1216. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 10044025.
• Pfeiffer, Loren; West, K. W.; Stormer, H. L.; Eisenstein, J. P.; Baldwin, K. W.; Gershoni, D.; Spector, J. (1990-04-23). "Formation of a high quality two‐dimensional electron gas on cleaved GaAs" (PDF). Applied Physics Letters. AIP Publishing. 56 (17): 1697–1699. Bibcode:1990ApPhL..56.1697P. doi:10.1063/1.103121. ISSN 0003-6951.

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