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Quantum Transport

Quantum Transport

Quantum Transport

Introduction to Nanoscience
Yuli V. Nazarov, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands
Yaroslav M. Blanter, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands
June 2009
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    Quantum transport is a diverse field, sometimes combining seemingly contradicting concepts - quantum and classical, conduction and insulating - within a single nanodevice. Quantum transport is an essential and challenging part of nanoscience, and understanding its concepts and methods is vital to the successful fabrication of devices at the nanoscale. This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly developing field of quantum transport. The authors present the comprehensive theoretical background, and explore the groundbreaking experiments that laid the foundations of the field. Ideal for graduate students, each section contains control questions and exercises to check readers' understanding of the topics covered. Its broad scope and in-depth analysis of selected topics will appeal to researchers and professionals working in nanoscience.

    • Contains over 100 control questions and exercises, and nearly 200 figures, making it an ideal textbook for graduate students
    • Explores the groundbreaking experiments that laid the foundations of the field that are fascinating to both scientists and experts from other fields
    • Gives a thorough overview of the field of quantum transport including the most recent developments

    Reviews & endorsements

    "I warmly recommend Quantum Transport to lecturers and students interested in the subject. In view of its comprehensive coverage of numerous topics and its accessible style, Nazarov and Blanter's text has the potential to become a standard reference in the field."
    Wolfgang Belzig, Physics Today

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    Product details

    June 2009
    Hardback
    9780521832465
    590 pages
    252 × 193 × 29 mm
    1.4kg
    74 b/w illus. 112 exercises
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • Introduction
    • 1. Scattering
    • 2. Classical and semiclassical transport
    • 3. Coulomb blockade
    • 4. Randomness and interference
    • 5. Qubits and quantum dots
    • 6. Interaction, relaxation and decoherence
    • Appendices
    • References
    • Index.
      Authors
    • Yuli V. Nazarov , Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands

      Yaroslav M. Blanter is an Associate Professor in the theory group at the Delft University of Technology. Previous to this he was a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Karlsruhe and a Senior Assistant at the University of Geneva.

    • Yaroslav M. Blanter , Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands

      Yuli V. Nazarov is a theorist at Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. from Landau Institute for theoretical physics in 1985, and has worked in the field of quantum transport since the late 1980s.