Assistant Professor
Ph. D. McGill University (2014)
dlaroc10@ufl.edu
Office: 2261
352.392.8591
Research Group
Condensed Matter Experiment/National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Research Interest
My laboratory efforts are mainly devoted to measuring and understanding the fascinating phenomena that arise when nano-devices are coupled to a variety of materials, or to other nano-devices. Utilizing cleanroom fabrication techniques, nano-circuits separated by only a few tens of nanometers are fabricated and characterized at cryogenic temperatures using techniques such as resonant tunneling and Coulomb drag.
I am especially interested in experimentally characterizing the strong electron-electron interactions arising in the one-dimensional Luttinger liquid regime, and in studying Majorana zero modes present in hybrid superconductor-semiconductor low-dimensional devices.
Selected Publications
Observation of the 4 ? -periodic Josephson effect in InAs nanowires. Laroche, D. Bouman, D. J. van Woerkom, A. Proutski, C. Murthy, D. I. Pikulin, C. Nayak, R.J. J. van Gulik, J. Nygård, P. Krogstrup, L. P. Kouwenhoven, A. Geresdi. Nature Communications 10, 245 (2019).
Magneto-transport analysis of an ultra-low-density two-dimensional hole gas in an undoped strained Ge/SiGe heterostructure, D. Laroche, S.-H. Huang, Y. Chuang, J.-Y. Li, C. W. Liu, and T. M. Lu, Appl. Phys. Lett., 108, 233504 (2016).
1D-1D Coulomb Drag Signature of a Luttinger Liquid, D. Laroche, G. Gervais, M. P. Lilly and J. L. Reno, Science, 343, 631 (2014).
Positive and Negative Coulomb Drag in Vertically Integrated One-Dimensional Quantum Wires D. Laroche, G. Gervais, M. P. Lilly and J. L. Reno, Nature Nanotech., 6, 793 (2011).
Complete list of publications.