Alexandre Zimmers

Flat Feynman (left) and Alexandre Zimmers (right)

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Phone: +33 1 40 79 58 19
Fax: +33 1 40 79 47 30
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Mailing address:
      LPEM - ESPCI,
      10 rue Vauquelin,
      F-75231 Paris Cedex 5,
      France

Short Vita

  • 2007 - Associate professor Sorbonne Université, LPEM/ESPCI, Paris, France.
  • 2006-2007 - Post doc/ATER INSP on tunnel spectroscopy in electron doped cuprates, UPMC, France.
  • 2004-2006 - Post-doctoral Research Assistant on the transport and magneto optical response of electron doped cuprates, Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland.
  • 2001-2004 - PhD on the Infrared spectroscopy of the superconductor Pr2-xCexCuO4 and the manganite La2/3Ca1/3MnO3, UPMC, France. (See ocg PhDs)

Latest papers

  • Quantum confinement effects in Pb nanocrystals grown on InAs, T. Zhang, S. Vlaic, S. Pons, A. Assouline, A. Zimmers, D. Roditchev, H. Aubin, G. Allan, C. Delerue, C. David, G. Rodary, and J-C Girard, Phys. Rev. B 97, 214514 (2018).
  • Quantum constriction at the interface between a superconducting nanocrystal and an electron accumulation layer, S. Vlaic, S. Pons, T. Zhang, A. Assouline, A. Zimmers, D. Roditchev, H. Aubin, G. Allan, C. David, G. Rodary, and J-C Girard, Physica C 552, 34 (2018).
  • Superconducting parity effect across the Anderson limit, S. Vlaic, S. Pons, T. Zhang, A. Assouline, A. Zimmers, C. David, G. Rodary, J-C Girard, D. Roditchev, and H. Aubin Nat. Commun. 8, 14549 (2017).
  • Shiba bound states across the mobility edge in doped InAs nanowires, A. Assouline, C. Feuillet-Palma, A. Zimmers, H. Aubin, M. Aprili, J-C Harmand, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 097701 (2017).
  • Transport in a single self-doped Nanocrystal, W. Wang, E. Lhuillier, Q. Yu, A. Zimmers, B. Dubertret, C. Ulysse, and H. Aubin, ACS Nano 11, 1222 (2017).
  • Effects of electron-phonon interactions on the electron tunneling spectrum of PbS quantum dots, H. Wang, E. Lhuillier, Q. Yu, A. Mottaghizadeh, C. Ulysse, A. Zimmers, A. Descamps-Mandine, B. Dubertret, and H. Aubin, Phys. Rev. B 92, 041403(R) (2015).
  • Metal oxide resistive switching: evolution of the density of states across the metal-insulator transition, A. Mottaghizadeh, Q. Yu, PL. Lang, A. Zimmers, and H. Aubin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 066803 (2014).
  • Verwey transition in single magnetite nanoparticles, Q. Yu, A. Mottaghizadeh, H. Wang, C. Ulysse, A. Zimmers, V. Rebuttini, N. Pinna, and H. Aubin, Phys. Rev. B 90, 075122 (2014).

Selected papers

 
  • Superconducting parity effect across the Anderson limit, S. Vlaic, S. Pons, T. Zhang, A. Assouline, A. Zimmers, C. David, G. Rodary, J-C Girard, D. Roditchev, and H. Aubin, Nature Commun. 8, 14549 (2017).
  • Metal oxide resistive switching: evolution of the density of states across the metal-insulator transition, A. Mottaghizadeh, Q. Yu, PL. Lang, A. Zimmers, and H. Aubin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 066803 (2014).
  • Role of thermal heating on the voltage induced insulator-metal transition in VO2, A. Zimmers, L. Aigouy, M. Mortier, A. Sharoni, S. Wang, K. West, J. Ramirez, and I. Schuller, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 056601 (2013).
  • Electron cotunneling transport in gold nanocrystal arrays, H. Moreira, Q. Yu, B. Nadal, B. Bresson, M. Rosticher, N. Lequeux, A. Zimmers, and H. Aubin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 176803 (2011).
  • Electric-field-driven phase transition in vanadium dioxide, B. Wu, A. Zimmers, H. Aubin, R. Ghosh, Y. Liu, and R. Lopez, Phys. Rev. B 84, 241410 (2011).
  • Infrared Hall effect in the electron-doped high Tc cuprate Pr2-xCexCuO4, A. Zimmers, L. Shi, D.C. Schmadel, R.L. Greene, and H.D. Drew, Phys. Rev. B 76, 064515 (2007).
  • Infrared properties of electron doped cuprates: tracking normal state gaps and quantum critical behavior in Pr2-xCexCuO4, A. Zimmers, J.M. Tomczak, R.P.S.M. Lobo, N. Bontemps, C.P. Hill, M.C. Barr, Y. Dagan, R.L. Greene, A. J. Millis, and C.C. Homes, Europhys. Lett. 70, 225 (2005).

Main research interests

  • Optical phase diagram of high-temperature superconductors and heavy fermions
  • Non-equilibrium transport in strongly correlated materials (VO2, Fe3O4, SrTiO3, manganites)
  • Tunnel spectroscopy in phase separated materials
  • Transport of single nanoparticles trapped in nanopgaps