Faculty

ERIC HUDSON
Associate Professor of Physics

ERIC W. HUDSON, Associate Professor of Physics

Name: Eric W. Hudson

Title(s): Associate Professor of Physics

Email: ehudson@mit.edu

Phone: (617) 452-2115

Assistant: Monica Wolf (617) 253-4829

Address:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Bldg. 13-2154
Cambridge, MA 02139

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Area of Physics:

Condensed Matter Experiment

Research Interests

Professor Hudson's main interests lie in nanoscale investigations of strongly correlated electron systems, such as high temperature superconductors (HTSC). In particular, he is interested in the fundamental question of how defects and disorder affect these systems, as well as the more practical question of what observations about these effects at the microscopic level can tell us about the macroscopic nature of these systems.

Professor Hudson's Detailed Research Plan (PDF).

Biographical Sketch

Professor Eric Hudson joined the Department of Physics as an Assistant Professor in January 2002. He received a B.A. in Physics/Linguistics in 1992 from the University of Chicago, and completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1999. After a brief postdoctoral tenure at UC-Berkeley, continuing his research on scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) of impurities and disorder in superconductors, he became an NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Electron Physics Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), studying spin polarized STM.

Selected Publications

  • "Nanoscale one-dimensional scattering resonances in the CuO chains of YBa2Cu3O6+x," D.J. Derro, E.W. Hudson, K. M. Lang, S. H. Pan, J.C. Davis, J.T. Markert and A.L. de Lozanne, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett..
  • "Imaging the granular structure of high-Tc superconductivity in underdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+," K. M. Lang, V. Madhavan, J. E. Hoffman, E. W. Hudson, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida & J. C. Davis, Nature 415, 412 (2002).
  • "A Four Unit Cell Periodic Pattern of Quasi-Particle States Surrounding Vortex Cores in Bi2 Sr2CaCu2O8+," J. E. Hoffman, E. W. Hudson, K. M. Lang, V. Madhavan, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, J. C. Davis, Science 295, 467 (2002).
  • "Interplay of magnetism and high-Tc superconductivity at individual Ni impurity atoms in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ," E.W. Hudson, K.M. Lang, V. Madhavan, S.H. Pan, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, and J.C. Davis, Nature 411, 920 (2001).
  • "A Detailed Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of the CuO Planes in YBa2Cu3O8+," D.J. Derro, E.W. Hudson, K.M. Lang, S.H. Pan, J.C. Davis, K. Mochizuki, J.T. Markert, and A.L. de Lozanne, Physica C 341, 425 (2000).
  • "STM Studies of the Electronic Structure of Vortex Cores in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+," S.H. Pan, E.W. Hudson, A.K. Gupta, K.-W. Ng, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, and J.C. Davis, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1536 (2000).
  • "STM of quasiparticle scattering resonances in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+," E.W. Hudson, S.H. Pan, K.M. Lang, A.K. Gupta, K.-W. Ng, and J.C. Davis, Physica B 284-288, 969 (2000).
  • "Imaging the Effects of Individual Zinc Atoms on Superconductivity in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+,"S.H. Pan, E.W. Hudson, K.M. Lang, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, and J.C. Davis, Nature 403, 746 (2000).