Email: ehudson@mit.edu Phone:      Office: (617) 452-2115      Lab: (617) 253-6800 Address:      Office: 13-2114      Lab: 13-2128 Related Links: Hudson Research Group

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).

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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.

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Selected Publications

"Nanoscale one-dimensional scattering resonances in the CuO chains of YBa₂Cu₃O_6+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-T_c 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-T_c superconductivity at individual Ni impurity atoms in Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O_8+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).

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