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Mesoscopic Quantum Physics
- 1st Edition
- Editors: E. Akkermans, G. Montambaux, J.-L. Pichard, J. Zinn-Justin
- Language: English
These proceedings focus on aspects of disorder where quantum interferences are present. Such interferences occur on a mesoscopic scale, intermediate between the microscopic (e.g.… Read more
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These proceedings focus on aspects of disorder where quantum interferences are present. Such interferences occur on a mesoscopic scale, intermediate between the microscopic (e.g. atomic physics) and macroscopic scales (e.g. traditional condensed matter physics). Before the emergence of mesoscopic quantum physics, the manifestations of these quantum interferences (weak localization in disordered metals, Anderson localization or hopping conductivity in insulators) were mainly studied from the point of view of the theory of critical phenomena (scaling theory of localization, renormalization of perturbative expansions, calculation of critical exponents). Anderson localization was then part of a more general field including two other problems where disorder and critical phenomena were relevant: percolation and frustration (spin glasses).
The field of mesoscopic quantum physics has emerged over recent years from a range of new experiments such as universal conductance fluctuations (magneto-fingerprints), the effect of an Aharonov-Bohm flux on the conductance and the thermodynamic properties of mesoscopic rings and the quantized conductance of ballistic point contacts. The discoveries of the integer and fractional quantum Hall effects and the high-Tc superconductors have renewed the interest for strongly correlated electron systems. All these recent developments in the field are covered in depth in this book which is organized with particular attention paid to pedagogy. It therefore includes both a description of the physical phenomena and a review of the methods, moving from an elementary level to the most recent techniques.
Preface. 1. Universalities: from Anderson localization to quantum chaos (B.L. Altshuler, B.D. Simons). 2. Experimental signatures of phase coherent transport (H. Bouchiat). 3. Recent experiments on multiple scattering and localization of light (G. Maret). 4. Anderson insulators (Y. Imry). Seminars: 1. Localization in disordered systems (A. Shalgi, Y. Imry). 2. Interferences in disordered mesoscopic insulators (F. Ladieu, M. Sanquer). 3. Quasicrystals: metal-insulator transition in highly ordered metallic phase (C. Berger). 5. Quantum transport in semiconductor-superconductor microjunctions (C.W.J. Beenakker). 6. Transport theory of mesoscopic systems: application to ballistic transport (A.D. Stone). 7. Semiclassical quantization of chaotic billiards - a scattering approach (U. Smilansky). 8. Theory of random matrices: spectral statistics and scattering problems (P.A. Mello). 9. Basic features of Efetov's supersymmetry approach (Y.V. Fyodorov). 10. Fermi liquids and non-Fermi liquids (H.J. Schulz). 11. Single electron phenomena in metallic nanostructures (M. Devoret, D. Esteve, C. Urbina). 12. Introduction to the physics of the quantum Hall regime (A.H. MacDonald). Seminars: 4. Quantum transport in the integer and fractional quantum Hall effect regime (D.C. Glattli, C. Pasquier). 5. Ideal anyons (S. Ouvry). 13. Adiabatic quantum transport (J. E. Avron)
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
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- Imprint: North Holland
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J. Zinn-Justin
Affiliations and expertise
CEN Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France