Department of Point-contact Spectroscopy

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Yuriy A. Kolesnichenko

Head of the research team "Theory of electron phenomena in conducting systems"

Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics (D.S.),

Professor,

Chief researcher

 

B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

47 Nauky Ave., Kharkiv, 61103, Ukraine

 

Phone: +380(96)796-9975

 

E-mail: kolesnichenko@ilt.kharkov.ua

 

Date and place of birth: January 6, 1953, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

 

Education background

 

1970: General secondary education - Diploma (with a gold medal) of Secondary school No. 4, Kharkiv.

 

1975: M.Sc. – Honors degree of Kharkov State University, Physical department, specialty – Theoretical physics.

 

1980: Candidate of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics (Ph.D.) – Certificate of B. Verkin ILTPE of NASU, speciality – Solid State Physics.

 

1985: Senior Researcher – Certificate of Presidium of Academy of Sciences of USSR; speciality – Solid State Physics.

 

1991: Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics (Ph.D.) – Certificate of Superior Attestation Commission under Council of Minister of USSR, speciality –

Solid State Physics.

 

2004: Professor - Certificate of Ministry of Education and Science, Ukraine; speciality – Solid State Physics.

Career

 

1975: Junior Researcher– B. Verkin ILTPE of NASU.

 

1985: Senior Researcher – B. Verkin ILTPE of NASU.

 

1992: Leading Researcher - B. Verkin ILTPE of NASU.

 

2002: Head of Department – B. Verkin ILTPE of NASU.

 

2021: Chief Researcher– B. Verkin ILTPE of NASU.

Area of expertise

 

1. Transport properties of point contacts and mesoscopic systems.

 

2. Josephson effect in unconventional superconductors.

 

3. Conducting properties of metallic multilayers and layered organic conductors.

 

4. Theory of scanning tunneling spectroscopy.

 

5. Two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interaction.

Scientific and organizational activity

 

● Associate editor-in-chief of the journal "Physics of Low Temperatures".

 

● Head of the section "Electronic properties of solid states" of the Scientific Council at Department of Physics and Astronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on the problem "Low temperature physics and cryogenic technology".

 

● Head of the Scientific Council of B. Verkin ILTPE of NASU on the problem "Electronic properties of conducting and superconducting systems".

 

● Member of the section "Theory of the metallic state" of the Scientific Council at Department of Physics and Astronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on the problem "Physics of the metallic state".

 

● Member of the section "Transport Phenomena in Metallic Materials" of the Scientific Council at Department of Physics and Astronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on the problem "Physics of the metallic state".

 

● Member of the Scientific Council of  B. Verkin ILTPE of NASU.

 

● Member of the Scientific Council of B. Verkin ILTPE of NASU on the problem "Theoretical Physics".

 

● Member of the Organizing Committee of the annual International Advanced Study Conference «Condensed Matter and Low Temperature Physics» (Kharkiv, Ukraine).

Supervisor of PhD theses

 

1. Dekhtyaruk L.V. "Kinetic effects in multilayered metal structures", Sumi State University, Sumi, Ukraine, 1998.

 

2. Tesgera Bedassa. "Ballistic and nonlinear effects in layered conductors in magnetic field", Kharkov State University, Kharkov, Ukraine, 1998.

 

3. Afshin Namiranian. "Nonlinear conductance of quantum point contacts", Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran, 2000.

 

4. Shevchenko S.N. "Current states in mesoscopic normal and superconducting systems", Institute for Low Temperature Physics & Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkov, Ukraine, 2003.

 

5. Golamreza Rashedi. "Charge and spin currents in superconducting weak links", Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran, 2005.

 

6. Avotina Ye.S. “The influence of single defects on the nonlinear conductivity of quantum contacts”, Institute for Low Temperature Physics & Engineering of the National Ukrainian Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkov, Ukraine, 2006.

 

7. Kozlov I.V. "Quantum oscillation phenomena  in layered organic conductors in a strong magnetic field", Institute for Low Temperature Physics & Engineering of the National Ukrainian Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkov, Ukraine, 2014.

 

8. Khotkevich-Sanina N.V. "Conductivity of tunnel point contacts", Institute for Low Temperature Physics & Engineering of the National Ukrainian Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkov, Ukraine, 2014.

 

9. Mirzoiev I.G. "Transport properties of conducting systems: quantum effects manifestations", Institute for Low Temperature Physics & Engineering of the National Ukrainian Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkov, Ukraine, 2017.

Awards

 

2011, 2013: Honorary certificates of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

 

2015: State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology.

 

2018: Award of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine "For professional achievements".

 

2020: Scholarship of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration for outstanding scientists in the field of science and technology named after K. D. Synelnikov.

 

 

 

 

Author and co-author of more than 120 papers in reviewed journals, 4 reviews, 4 inventions; h-index 15 (Scopus).

 

  • Key publications

    1. Electron focusing in metals (Review) / Yu.A. Kolesnichenko // Sov. J. Low Temp. Phys. – 1992. – Vol. 18, No.10, 741-759.

     

    2. Electron Phenomena in Layered Conductors (Review) / O.V. Kirichenko, Yu.A. Kolesnichenko, V.G. Peschansky // Physics Reviews (Ed. I. M. Khalatnikov) – 1998. – Vol. 18, Part 4. – P. 1-110.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1006.1498

     

    3. Effect of quantum interference in nonlinear conductance of metallic microconstrictions / A. Namiranian, Yu.A. Kolesnichenko, A.N. Omelyanchouk // Phys. Rev. B. – 2000. – Vol. 61 No.23. – P. 16796.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.61.16796

     

    4. Conductivity of a two-dimensional curved microconstriction / A. Namiranian, M.R.H. Khajehpour, Yu.A. Kolesnichenko, S.N. Shevchenko // Physica E. – 2001. – Vol. 10, – P. 549.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1386-9477(00)00298-8

     

    5. Nonlocal mixing of supercurrents in Josephson ballistic point contacts / Yu.A. Kolesnichenko, A.N. Omelyanchouk, S.N. Shevchenko // Phys. Rev. B. – 2003. – Vol. 67. – P. 172504.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.67.172504

     

    6. G. Rashedi, Yu.A. Kolesnichenko Effect of point-contact transparency on the coherent mixing of Josephson and transport supercurrents // Phys. Rev. B. – 2004. – Vol. 69. – P. 024516.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.69.024516

     

    7. Nonlinear conductance of a quantum microconstriction with single slow two-level system / A. Namiranian, Ye.S. Avotina, Yu.A. Kolesnichenko // Phys. Rev. B. – 2004. – Vol. 70, No.7. – P. 073308.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.70.073308

     

    8. Voltage-dependent conductance and shot noise in quantum microconstrictions with single defects / Ye.S. Avotina, A. Namiranian, Yu.A. Kolesnichenko // Phys. Rev. B. – 2004. – Vol. 70. – P. 075308.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.70.075308

     

    9. Kinetic Phenomena in Metallic Multilayers (Review) / L.V. Dekhtyaruk, Yu.A. Kolesnichenko, V.G. Peschansky // Physics Reviews (Ed. I.M.Khalatnikov, Cambridge Scientific Publishers). – 2004. – Vol. 20, Part 4. – P. 1-113.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1006.1499

     

    10.  Vortex-like current states in Josephson ballistic point contacts / A.N. Omelyanchouk, S.N. Shevchenko, Yu.A. Kolesnichenko // J. Low Temp. Phys. – 2005. – Vol. 139, No. 1. – P. 247.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02769582

     

    11.  Method to determine defect positions below a metal surface by STM / Ye.S. Avotina, Yu.A. Kolesnichenko, A.N. Omelyanchouk, Otte A.F., J.M. van Ruitenbeek // Phys. Rev. B. – 2005. – Vol. 71, No.11. – P. 115430.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.74.085411

     

    12. Signature of Fermi surface anisotropy in point contact conductance in the presence of defects / Ye.S. Avotina, Yu.A. Kolesnichenko, A.F. Otte, J.M. van Ruitenbeek // Phys. Rev. B. – 2006. – Vol. 74. – P. 085411.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.74.085411

     

    13. Magneto-quantum oscillations of the conductance of a tunnel point contact in the presence of a single defect / Ye.S. Avotina, Yu.A. Kolesnichenko, A.F. Otte, J.M. van Ruitenbeek // Phys. Rev. B. – 2007. – Vol. 75. – P. 125411.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.75.125411

     

    14. The signature of subsurface Kondo impurities in the local tunnel current / Ye.S. Avotina, Yu.A. Kolesnichenko, J.M. van Ruitenbeek // J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. – 2008. – Vol. 20, No.11. – P. 115208.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/20/11/115208

     

    15. Magneto-orientation and quantum size effects in spin-polarized STM conductance in the presence of a subsurface magnetic cluster / Ye.S. Avotina, Yu.A. Kolesnichenko, van J.M. van Ruitenbeek // Phys. Rev. B. – 2009. – Vol. 80, No.11. – P. 115333.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.115333

     

    16. Theory of oscillations in STM conductance caused by subsurface defects (Review Article) / Ye.S. Avotina, Yu.A. Kolesnichenko, and J.M. van Ruitenbeek // Low Temp. Phys. – 2010. – Vol. 36, №10/11. – P. 849.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3514417

     

    17. Quantum interference effects in a system of two tunnel point-contacts in the presence of single scatterer: simulation of a double-tip STM experiment / N.V. Khotkevych, Yu.A. Kolesnichenko, and J.M. van Ruitenbeek // Low Temp. Phys. – 2011. – Vol. 37, No.1. – P. 53.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3551531

     

    18. Fermi surface contours obtained from scanning tunneling microscope images around surface point defects /  N.V. Khotkevych, Yu.A. Kolesnichenko, and J.M. van Ruitenbeek // New Journal of Physics. – 2013. – Vol. 15. – P. 123013.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/15/12/123013

     

    19. Tunneling of Bloch electrons through a small-size contact / N.V. Khotkevych, Yu.A. Kolesnichenko // Physica E. – 2014. – Vol. 59. – P. 133–138.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physe.2014.01.008

     

    20. Anisotropic Friedel oscillations in a two-dimensional electron gas with a Rashba–Dresselhaus spin–orbit interaction / I.V.  Kozlov and Yu.A. Kolesnichenko Low Temperature Physics. - 2017. – Vol. 43, No. 7. – P. 855.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4995636

     

    21. Friedel oscillations in 2D electron gas from spin-orbit interaction in a parallel magnetic field. / I.V.  Kozlov, Yu.A. Kolesnichenko // Low Temperature Physics. - 2018. – Vol. 44, No.12. – P. 1299.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5078625

     

    22. Magnetic field driven topological transitions in the noncentrosymmetric energy spectrum of the two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction / I.V.  Kozlov, Yu.A. Kolesnichenko // Physical Review B. - 2019. – Vol. 99. – P. 085129.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.085129

     

    23. High-frequency magnetic susceptibility of a 2D electron gas with spin-orbit interaction in a parallel magnetic field under topological phase transition / Yu.A. Kolesnichenko and D.I. Stepanenko // Low Temp. Phys. – 2022. – Vol. 48. – P. 463.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/10.0010441

 

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