Principal Investigator/Program Director (Last, first, middle):
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
NAME
POSITION TITLE
Peter Christopher Hammel
Professor
EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION
University of California, San Diego
Cornell University, Ithaca NY
DEGREE
(if applicable)
YEAR(s)
FIELD OF STUDY
B.A
Magna Cum Laude
1977
1984
Physics
Ph.D
Physics
A. Positions and Honors
2002 - present
2000 – 2004
1989 – 2002
1996 - present
1986 – 1989
1984 – 1986
1979 - Jan, 1984
Professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar, Departments of Physics and Electrical Engineering, The
Ohio State University
Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Staff member, Cond. Matter and Thermal Physics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Visiting Associate in Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
J. Robert Oppenheimer Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT with Prof. John S. Waugh,
Research Assistant, Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Awards and Honors
Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory
February 1995, Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellows Prize.
Fellow, The American Physical Society.
B. Selected peer-reviewed publications
1. "Seeing Single Spins," P. C. Hammel, Nature 430 300 (2004).
2. "Relaxation of nuclear magnetization of liquid 3He-substrate systems," P.C. Hammel and R.C. Richardson,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 52 1441 (1984).
3. "Spin dynamics at oxygen sites in YBa2Cu3O7-," P.C. Hammel, M. Takigawa, R.H. Heffner, Z. Fisk and
K.C. Ott, Phys. Rev. Lett. 63 1992 (1989). [Cited over 300 times.]
4. "Observation of Ferromagnetic Resonance in a Microscopic Sample Using Magnetic Resonance Force
Microscopy," Z. Zhang, P.E. Wigen and P.C. Hammel, Appl. Phys. Lett. 68 2005 (1996).
5. "Probe-Sample Coupling in the Magnetic Resonance Force Microscope," A. Suter, D.V. Pelekhov, M.L.
Roukes and P.C. Hammel, Journal of Magnetic Resonance 154 210 (2002).
6. "Theory of spin relaxation in magnetic resonance force microscopy," D. Mozyrsky, I. Martin, D. Pelekhov
and P. C. Hammel, Appl. Phys. Lett. 82 1278 (2003).
7. "Magnetic resonance force microscopy quantum computer with tellurium," G.P. Berman, G.D. Doolen, P.C.
Hammel, V.I. Tsifrinovich, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 2894 (2001).
8. "Towards a Magnetic Resonance Force Microscope Employing a Ferromagnetic Probe Mounted on the
Force Detector," Z. Zhang and P.C. Hammel, Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 11 65 (1998).
9. "The Magnetic Resonance Force Microscope: A New Microscopic Probe of Magnetic Materials," P.C.
Hammel, Z. Zhang, M. Midzor, M.L. Roukes, P.E. Wigen and J.R. Childress, Frontiers in Reduced
Dimensional Magnetism, edited by V. G. Bar'yakthar, P. E. Wigen and N. A. Lesnik, Kluwer Academic
Publishers (Dordrecht), p. 441 (1998).
10. "Inhomogeneous Low Frequency Spin Dynamics in La1.65Eu0.2Sr0.15CuO4," N.J. Curro, P.C. Hammel, B.J.
Suh, M. Hucker, B. Buchner, U. Ammerahl, and A. Revcolevschi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 642 (2000).
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11. "Suppression of Antiferromagnetic Order by Light Hole Doping in La2Cu1-xLixO4: A 139La NQR Study," B.J.
Suh, Y. Yoshinari, J.D. Thompson, P.C. Hammel, J.L. Sarrao, and Z. Fisk, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81 2791
(1998).
12. "Ferromagnetic Resonance Force Microscopy on Microscopic Co Single Layer Films," Z. Zhang, P. C.
Hammel, M. Midzor, M. L. Roukes, and J. R. Childress, Appl. Phys. Lett., 73 2036 (1998).
13. "Magnetic field independence of the spin gap in YBa2Cu3O7-," K. Gorny, O. M. Vyaselev, J. A. Martindale,
C. H. Pennington, P. C. Hammel, W. L. Hults, J. L. Smith, P. L. Kuhns, A. P. Reyes, and W. G. Moulton,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 82 177 (1999).
14. "Magnetism of Stripe-Ordered La5/3Sr1/3NiO4," Y. Yoshinari, P. C. Hammel and S-W. Cheong, Phys. Rev.
Lett. 82 3536 (1999).
15. "Magnetic Excitations of the Doped-Hole State in Diamagnetic La2Cu0.5Li0.5O4," Y. Yoshinari, P.C.
Hammel, J.A. Martindale, E. Moshopoulou, J.D. Thompson, J.L. Sarrao and Z. Fisk, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77
2069 (1996).
Research Support
Ongoing Research Support
DAAD19-02-1-031
Army Research Office
Single spin readout for the silicon-based quantum computer
07/15/02–01/14/06
Develop single spin sensitivity in MRFM, and apply this to spin qubit readout, device characterization and
fabrication process development in spin-based quantum computer devices.
Role: PI
DE-FG02-03ER46054
07-15-03—07-14-05
Department of Energy
Microscopic subsurface characterization of layered magnetic materials using magnetic resonance force
microscopy
Study structural and magnetic properties of buried interfaces in layered magnetic structures and the magnetic and spinpolarized transport properties of spin electronics systems and microscopic ferromagnets by means scanned probe
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), electron spin resonance (ESR) and ferromagnetic resonance (FMR).
Role: PI
EIA-0323783
08-15-03—07-31-06
NSF Physics
Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy for Characterization and Readout of a Quantum Computer Employing
Endohedral Fullerenes
The goal of the project is the application of a magnetic resonance force microscope to the detection and study of
individual endohedral fullerenes, and to the fabrication, characterization and readout of a fullerene-based quantum
computer, ultimately with single spin sensitivity.
Role: PI
N00014-02-1-0963
Office of Naval Research
Imaging injected nonequilibrium spin polarization by MRFM
08-07-02—07-31-05
Develop very sensitive scanned probe microscopy for imaging electrical spin-injection effects across high quality,
epitaxial semiconductor interfaces, and to understand the fundamental physics of spin injection across interfaces.
Role: PI
DAAD19-03-C-0079
07-21-03—07-20-05
US Army Office of Research (subcontract through Pixon LLC)
Essential image processing for magnetic-resonance force microscopy
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This project’s specific objectives are to incorporate the knowledge gained during MRFM hardware development into the
design of software tools for MRFM image formation and, in turn, for the image-processing research to feed back to the
hardware development.
Role: PI
W9113M-04-1-0007
03-29-2004—03-28-2005
US Army Space and Missile Def Cmd
Ultra senstive micromechanical accelerometer/force detector with an integrated displacement read-out.
The project is focused on the development of a compact high sensivity accelerometer based on detection of the
displacement a micromachined suspended beam.
Role: PI
NSF-2T-7008/341 OS/VT
08-15-2003—07-15-2005
LUNA INNOVATIONS INC
This subcontract is for characterization of C80 fullerenes to determine magnetic resonance properties such as lineshape
and relaxation.
Role: PI
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