The developments of nanofabrication in the past years have enabled the design of electronic systems that exhibit spectacular signatures of quantum coherence. Nanofabricated quantum wires and dots containing a small number of electrons are ideal experimental playgrounds for probing electron-electron interactions and their interplay with disorder. Going down to even smaller scales, molecules such as carbon nanotubes, fullerenes or hydrogen molecules can now be inserted in nanocircuits. Measurements of transport through a single chain of atoms have been performed as well. Much progress has also been made in the design and fabrication of superconducting and hybrid nanostructures, be they normal/superconductor or ferromagnetic/superconductor. Quantum coherence is then no longer that of individual electronic states, but rather that of a superconducting wavefunction of a macroscopic number of Cooper pairs condensed in the same quantum mechanical state. Beyond the study of linear response regime, the physics of non-equilibrium transport (including non-linear transport, rectification of a high frequency electric field as well as shot noise) has received much attention, with significant experimental and theoretical insights. All these quantities exhibit very specific signatures of the quantum nature of transport, which cannot be obtained from basic conductance measurements. Basic concepts and analytical tools needed to understand this new physics are presented in a series of theoretical fundamental courses, in parallel with more phenomenological ones where physics is discussed in a less formal way and illustrated by many experiments. · Electron-electron interactions in one-dimensional quantum transport · Coulomb Blockade and Kondo physics in quantum dots · Out of equilibrium noise and quantum transport · Andreev reflection and subgap nonlinear transport in hybrid N/S nanosructures. · Transport through atomic contacts · Solid state Q-bits · Written by leading experts in the field, both theorists and experimentalists
Author(s): H. Bouchiat, Y. Gefen, S. Guéron, G. Montambaux and J. Dalibard (Eds.)
Series: Les Houches 81
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 1-607
Tags: Специальные дисциплины;Наноматериалы и нанотехнологии;Физика наноразмерных систем;
Content:
Lecturers
Page xi
Seminar speakers
Page xiii
Participants
Pages xv-xviii
Preface
Pages xix-xxii
H. Bouchiat, Y. Gefen, S. Guéron, G. Montambaux, J. Dalibard
CouRse 1 Fundamental aspects of electron correlations and quantum transport in one-dimensional systems Original Research Article
Pages 1-108
Dmitrii L. Maslov
Seminar 1 Impurity in the tomonaga-luttinger model: A functional integral approach Original Research Article
Pages 109-127
I.V. Lerner, I.V. Yurkevich
Course 2 Novel phenomena in double layer two-dimensional electron systems Original Research Article
Pages 129-176
J.P. Eisenstein
Course 3 Many-body theory of non-equilibrium systems Original Research Article
Pages 177-246
Alex Kamenev
Course 4 Non-linear quantum coherence effects in driven mesoscopic systems Original Research Article
Pages 247-282
V.E. Kravtsov
Course 5 Noise in mesoscopic physics Original Research Article
Pages 283-359
T. Martin
Seminar 2 Higher moments of noise Original Research Article
Pages 361-382
Bertrand Reulet
Course 6 Electron subgap transport in hybrid systems combining superconductors with normal or ferromagnetic metals Original Research Article
Pages 383-426
F.W.J. Hekking
Course 7 Low-temperature transport through a quantum dot Original Research Article
Pages 427-478
Leonid I. Glazman, Michael Pustilnik
Seminar 3 Transport through quantum point contacts Original Research Article
Pages 479-493
Yigal Meir
Course 8 Transport at the atomic scale: Atomic and molecular contacts Original Research Article
Pages 495-535
A. Levy Yeyati, J.M. van Ruitenbeek
Course 9 Solid state quantum bit circuits Original Research Article
Pages 537-575
Daniel Estève, Denis Vion
Classical spins made by ferromagnetic π junctions
Pages 579-582
A. Bauer, C. Strunk, M.L. Della Rocca, T. Kontos, M. Aprili
Electronic transport in carbon nanotubes
Pages 583-584
R. Egger
Quantum physics in quantum dots
Pages 585-586
Klaus Ensslin
Interplay of coulomb and proximity effects in S-I-N nanostructures
Pages 587-588
M.V. Feigel'man
Geometric phases in superconducting nanocircuits
Pages 589-590
Rosario Fazio
Decoherence in disordered conductors at low temperatures, the effect of soft local excitations
Pages 591-592
Y. Imry
Proximity induced and intrinsic superconductivity in long and short molecules
Pages 593-595
A.Yu. Kasumov, V.T. Volkov, I.I. Khodos, Yu.A. Kasumov, D.V. Klinov, M. Kociak, R. Deblock, S. Guéron, H. Bouchiat
Geometric phases in dissipative quantum
Pages 597-598
Yuriy Makhlin
Interacting electrons in metal nanostructures
Pages 599-601
D.C. Ralph
Inversion of DNA charge by a positive polymer and fractionalization of the polymer charge
Pages 603-604
B.I. Shklovskii
Spin-charge separation in quantum wires
Pages 605-607
A. Yacoby
