Emile Michael Hoskinson

 

Hear the helium-4 quantum whistle!

 

 

Emile Hoskinson joined the Packard group in 1999 as a PhD student. He was involved in the successful demonstration of the superfluid helium-3 gyroscope, a neutral fluid analog of the dc Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (dc-SQUID). He went on to discover the helium-4 quantum whistle, marking the first observation of Josephson oscillations in helium-4. Soon after, he demonstrated a superfluid helium-4 dc-SQUID, which has a significant advantage over the helium-3 version: it operates at 2 K, a temperature 2000 times higher than for the helium-3 device. Compared to the highly specialized refrigeration technology required to perform experiments with superfluid helium-3, the helium-4 SQUID can be operated at low-cost, without cryogenics expertise. This practical device is highly sensitive to rotations and has the potential to become an important scientific probe.

Emile completed a BSc in physics at the University of British Columbia in 1999. It was here he was first introduced to the field of low-temperature physics as part of his undergraduate thesis project in the high-Tc superconductivity lab of Walter Hardy and Doug Bonn.

 

He completed his PhD at Berkeley in Dec 2005 and is currently a post-doctoral research scientist at the CRTBT in Grenoble, France, studying quantum behavior in superconducting Josephson junction circuits.

 

Current Coordinates

 

CNRS – CRTBT                                                       

25 Avenue des Martyrs BP 166                                 

38042 GRENOBLE cédex 9                                      

FRANCE                                                       

TEL: 33-4-76-88-12-31

FAX: 33-4-76-87-50-60

Email: emile.hoskinson “at” grenoble.cnrs.fr

 

Academic History

 

Post-doctoral research scientist, CRNS – CRTBT, Grenoble, France        Feb 2006 to present

       Superconducting Josephson Junction/SQUID qubits.

       With Olivier Buisson, Laurent Levy and Frank Hekking.  

 

PhD, Experimental Low Temperature Physics, UC Berkeley                     Dec 2005

       Superfluid 3He and 4He weak links (Josephson junctions).

       With Richard Packard.

 

B.Sc. Physics, University of British Columbia,                                          1999

       Thesis work on the High-Tc superconductor YBCO,

       With Walter Hardy and Doug Bonn.

 

Thesis (PhD)  Superfluid 4He weak links

 

Journal Publications

 

20. Superfluid 4He interferometer operating near 2 K, Emile Hoskinson, Yuki Sato, and Richard Packard, Phys. Rev. B 74, 100509 (2006).

19. Transition from synchronous to asynchronous superfluid phase slippage in an aperture array, Y. Sato, E. Hoskinson, and R. E. Packard. Phys. Rev. B 74, 144502 (2006).

18. Transition from phase slips to the Josephson effect in a superfluid 4He weak link, E. Hoskinson, Y. Sato, I. Hahn and R. E. Packard. Nature Physics 2, 23 (2006). News & Views.

17. A Chemical Potential “Battery” for Superfluid 4He Weak Links, E. Hoskinson, Y. Sato, K. Penanen, and R. E. Packard, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics, AIP Conference Proceedings 850, 117 (2006).

16. Calibration Technique for Superfluid 4He Weak-Link Cells Based on the Fountain Effect, E. Hoskinson and R. E. Packard, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics, AIP Conference Proceedings 850, 119 (2006).

15. Thermally Driven Josephson Oscillations in Superfluid 4He, E. Hoskinson, R. E. Packard, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 155303 (2005).

14. Quantum whistling in superfluid helium-4, E. Hoskinson, R. E. Packard, T. M. Haard. Nature 433, 376 (2005). Supplemental material. Quantum whistle sound file.

13. Development of a computer-based pulsed NMR thermometer, A. Hobeika, T. M. Haard, E. M. Hoskinson, R. E. Packard. Physica B 329-333, 1610 (2003).

12. Quantum interference of superfluid 3He, R. W. Simmonds, A. Marchenkov, E. Hoskinson, J. C. Davis, R. E. Packard. Nature 412, 55 (2001).

11. Band gaps and localization in acoustic propagation in water with air cylinders. Z. Ye, E. Hoskinson. Appl. Phys. Lett. 77, 4428 (2000).

10. Phase order and energy localization in acoustic propagation in random bubbly liquids. Z. Ye, H. Hsu, E. Hoskinson. Phys. Lett. A, 275, 452 (2000).

9. Polarization studies in multiply scattering chiral media. I. A. Vitkin, E. Hoskinson. Optical Engineering 39, 353 (2000).

8. Phase transition in acoustic propagation in 2D random liquid media. Emile Hoskinson and Zhen Ye. Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2734 (1999).

7. Acoustic band gaps and localization in water with air-cylinders. Emile Hoskinson and Zhen Ye, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105, 1196 (1999).

6. On localization of acoustic waves. Z. Ye, Haoran Hsu, E. Hoskinson, A. Alvarez. Chinese Journal of Physics 37, 343 (1999).

5. Low-frequency acoustic scattering by gas-filled prolate spheroids in liquids. II. Comparison with the exact solution. Z. Ye, E. Hoskinson. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 103, 822 (1998).

4. A method for acoustic scattering by slender bodies. I. Theory and verification. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 102, Z. Ye, E. Hoskinson, R. K. Dewey, L. Ding, D. M. Farmer. 1964 (1997).

3. Public domain platform to model scintillation counters for gamma-ray imaging applications. C. Moisan, E. M. Hoskinson, A. Levin, D. Vozza. SPIE-Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 3115, 21 (1997).

2. A practical block detector for a depth-encoding PET camera. J. G. Rogers, C. Moisan, E. M. Hoskinson, M. S. Andreaco, C. W. Wiiliams, R. Nutt. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 43, 3240 (1996).

1. Performance studies of a depth encoding multicrystal detector for PET. C. Moisan, G. Tsang, J. G. Rogers, E. M. Hoskinson. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 43, 1926 (1996).