Mark Alan Eriksson is an American experimental physicist who specializes in experimental studies of nanostructures. He is the John Bardeen Professor of Physics the

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Education

Eriksson earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1992, followed by a Master of Science and PhD in physics from

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Career

Eriksson's research focuses on nanoscale electronic systems,

quantum computing Quantum computing is a type of computation whose operations can harness the phenomena of quantum mechanics, such as superposition, interference, and entanglement. Devices that perform quantum computations are known as quantum computers. Though ...

; semiconductor membranes, many-body physics and interacting electrons in low-dimensional systems; and the application of nanoelectronics in biology. Eriksson was elected a fellow of the

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in 2015. He is also fellow of the

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