AMP Colloquium (Winter 2017)

Join us for this winter's AMP colloquium – the only physics colloquium where it's OK to have a beer during the talk. This time Andrea Hofmann of the Nanophysics group will present what kept her busy for some years: measuring spin-flips of a single electron in a time-resolved fashion. She will first introduce you to the method used to capture single electrons in quantum dots and tell you about time-resolved detection of single electrons tunneling between two quantum dots. Interestingly, one can detect not only charge tunneling but also trace back spin flips. Andrea will present origins to spin-flips and give some ideas on how the two mechanisms can be distinguished. Suppression of both mechanisms increases the spin lifetime. The colloquium takes place in HIT E41.1 at 17:00 on Friday the 8th of December. After the talk, we will provide more beer and snacks.