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Dr. James Nakamura
Dr. James Nakamura is recognised for the first direct observation of anyonic braiding statistics for quasiparticles at the v=1/3 fractional quantum Hall state. Dr. Nakamura’s experimental results substantiate theoretical predictions made nearly forty years ago by Wilczek and Halperin, and his work will stand as a high point in the study of topological phases of condensed matter systems.
The Lee Osheroff Richardson Science Prize promotes and recognises the novel work of young scientists working in the fields of low temperatures and/or high magnetic fields or surface science in North and South America.
“It is an honour to receive the Lee Osheroff Richardson Science Prize for 2022. The Prize will enable my group’s research to continue, including investigating other fractions where effective charge and fractional statistics diverge. Thank you to my fellow researchers for working alongside me and to Oxford Instruments for recognising my achievement with such a prestigious Prize.”
The 2022 LOR Science Prize selection committee is chaired by Professor Bruce Gaulin, McMaster University and includes: Professor Laura Greene, NHMFL and FSU; Professor Hae-Young Kee, Toronto University; Professor Collin Broholm, Johns Hopkins University; Professor Cory Dean, Columbia University and Dr Matthew Yankowitz, U Washington (2021 winner).
Nakamura was first author of a masterful pair of papers published in 2019 and 2020 experimentally demonstrating fractional statistics of the 1/3 state in a quantum Hall interferometer. As a post-doctoral researcher in Michael Manfra’s research group at Purdue University, Nakamura’s experimental results are the most compelling evidence that anyons – particles that are neither bosons nor fermions – may be probed and manipulated in low dimensional strongly interacting electronic systems.
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