Physics
on meso and nano scales
- Introduction, experimental systems and fabrication methods,
scales and phenomena
- Quantum transport, Anderson localization, quantum
interference effects
- Aharonov-Bohm oscillations
- Scaling theory of localization
- Weak localization
- Mesoscopic fluctuations
- Conductance quantization, quantum point contacts, Landauer
formulation
- Coulomb blockade
- Quantum chaotic and integrable systems
- Random matrix theory and its applications, quantum dots
- Quantum integrability, energy level statistics in
integrable systems
- Chaotic and integrable billiards
- Semi-classical analysis and trace formula
- Mesoscopic superconductivity and other interaction effects
- Josephson junction, hybrid structures
- “Universal” Hamiltonian, Stoner instability
- Even-odd effects, finite-size corrections to bulk
superconducting properties
- Solid state quantum computing
- Single-electron devices, spin qubits, spin blockade, other
type of qubits
- Dephasing and decoherence due to coupling to environment,
different types of environments
- Superconducting qubits, Cooper pair boxes, flux and charge
qubits
Literature:
- Some books:
- Y. Imry, Introduction to mesoscopic physics, Oxford
University Press,
2nd edition, 2002, ISBN-10: 019955269X | ISBN-13: 978-0199552696
- S. Datta, Electronic Transport in Mesoscopic Systems,
Cambridge
University Press, 1995, ISBN-10: 0521599431 | ISBN-13: 978-0521599436
- K. Nakamura and T. Harayama, Quantum Chaos and Quantum
Dots, Oxford
University Press, 2004, ISBN-10: 0198525893 | ISBN-13: 978-0198525899
- M. L. Mehta, Random Matrices, Elsevier, 3rd edition, 2004,
ISBN-10: 0120884097 | ISBN-13: 978-0120884094
- See also literature used in each lecture
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