Reguera, Platero, et al. (eds.)
Table of contents :
Preface……Page 1
Contents……Page 3
1.1 Coulomb Blockade……Page 9
1.2 Mechanisms of Transport……Page 12
2.1 Definition……Page 15
2.2 Physical Meaning of the Thermopower……Page 16
2.3 Thermopower in the Sequential Tunneling Regime……Page 17
2.4 Cotunneling Thermopower……Page 18
3 Conclusions……Page 20
References……Page 21
1 Introduction……Page 22
2 Main Results……Page 24
3 Bosonization for a Finite-Size Open Dot……Page 25
4 The Effective Exchange Hamiltonian……Page 28
5 A Dot with Two Junctions……Page 29
6 Overall Temperature Dependence of the Conductance……Page 31
References……Page 32
1 Introduction……Page 33
2 The interpolative method……Page 34
2.1 The single-le el case……Page 35
2.2 Multilevel case……Page 37
3 Results……Page 38
References……Page 40
1 Introduction……Page 41
2 Experimental Setup and Sample Characterization……Page 42
4 Integrate Sources……Page 45
5 Summary……Page 48
References……Page 49
1 Introduction……Page 51
2 Avoided Band Crossings……Page 54
3.1 The case K = L……Page 61
3.2 The case K =/ L……Page 62
References……Page 65
1 Introduction……Page 66
2 Drumhead Experiments……Page 67
3 Plate Experiments……Page 69
References……Page 72
2.1 Lattice Mode Hamiltonian……Page 73
2.2 Kubo Formula for the Conductance……Page 74
3 Weak Localization Effects……Page 76
4 Selfsimilar Magnetoconductance Fluctuations……Page 78
References……Page 82
1 Introduction……Page 83
3 Density of States Matrix Elements……Page 86
5 Admittance……Page 89
6 Bare Charge Fluctuations……Page 90
7 Fluctuations of the True Charge……Page 91
8 Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Charge Relaxation Resistance……Page 92
9 Several Edge States……Page 93
10 Phase Randomization……Page 94
11 Discussion……Page 96
References……Page 97
1 Introduction……Page 98
2 The Drift-Diffusion Equation……Page 99
3 Space-Charge Limited Conduction……Page 100
5 Fluctuations……Page 102
6 Drift Approximation……Page 104
7 Discussion……Page 105
References……Page 106
1 Introduction……Page 107
2 Noise o Entangled Electrons: Beam Splitter Set-up……Page 109
3 Probing Entanglement o Electrons in a Double-Dot……Page 111
4 Transport of Entangled Electrons……Page 113
References……Page 115
1 Introduction……Page 116
2 Experimental techniques……Page 117
3.2 Atom-size aluminum contacts……Page 118
3.3 Larger gold contacts……Page 120
4 Discussion……Page 121
References……Page 123
1 Introduction……Page 125
2 The model……Page 127
3 Chaotic tunneling near singlet-doublet crossings……Page 135
4 Incoherent quantum dynamics……Page 141
5 Signatures of Chaos in the asymptotic state……Page 149
6 Conclusion……Page 154
References……Page 155
M. Wagner and F. Sols……Page 158
References……Page 167
1 Introduction……Page 168
2.1 Miniband conduc ion (MBC)……Page 169
2.2 Wannier-Stark hopping (WSH)……Page 170
2.4 Summary……Page 171
2.5 Nonequilibriu Green functions (NGF)……Page 172
3.2 Theoretical formalism……Page 177
3.3 Current responsivity……Page 180
3.4 Superlatice dielectric function. Hybridisation of Bloch and plasma oscillations……Page 181
3.5 High-frequency limit……Page 183
3.6 Excitation of the plasma-Bloch oscillations……Page 184
3.7 Optimized superlatice length……Page 186
3.8 Conclusions……Page 187
References……Page 188
1 Introduction……Page 190
2 Thermodynamic Density-of-States Matrix……Page 191
3.1 Field-dependent Coulomb Blockade Peaks……Page 194
3.2 Field-dependent double-layer compressibility measurements……Page 195
4.1 Band Ferromagnets……Page 196
4.2 Zero Field Two-Dimensional Electron Gas……Page 197
4.3 Quantum Hall Ferromagnets……Page 200
5 Summary……Page 202
References……Page 203
1 Introduction……Page 205
2 Experimental Results……Page 207
3 Physical Interpretation……Page 208
References……Page 211
1 Introduction……Page 213
2 The Anderson model……Page 215
3 The level spacing distribution……Page 216
4 Two-level correlation function……Page 219
5 Spectral form-factor……Page 221
6 The correlation length exponent……Page 223
7 Conclusions……Page 226
References……Page 227
2 Liquid Crystals……Page 228
3 Time-resolved experiments……Page 231
4 Interpretation……Page 235
5 Conclusions……Page 236
References……Page 237
1 Introduction……Page 239
3 Level statistics……Page 240
5 Two-particle decay length……Page 242
Acknowledgements……Page 245
References……Page 246
1 Introduction……Page 247
2 The projected Ginzburg-Landau functional……Page 248
3 Results and discussion……Page 250
References……Page 254
1 Introduction……Page 255
2 Model and method……Page 256
3 Confined QD electronic states……Page 257
4 Carbon-nanotube barriers……Page 261
References……Page 262
2 The conductance of a constriction……Page 264
3 Experimental technique……Page 266
4 Large constrictions……Page 267
6 Atomic-size contacts……Page 270
7 Atomic chains……Page 271
8 Point-contact spectroscopy in atomic-size contacts……Page 272
References……Page 275
References……Page 276
C.P. Herrero, G. Schon, and A.D. Zaikin……Page 277
References……Page 278
References……Page 279
T.D. Kieu and M. Danos……Page 280
References……Page 281
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V. Piazza, V. Pellegrini et al…….Page 283
G.R. Bollinger, N. Agraıt, and S. Vieira……Page 284
H. Suderow, E. Bascones, W. Belzig, S. Vieira, and F. Guinea……Page 285
References……Page 286
S. Sharov and F. Sols……Page 287
References……Page 288
B. Paredes, C. Tejedor, L. Brey, and L. Martın-Moreno……Page 289
J. Reijniers, A. Matulis, and F.M. Peeters……Page 290
H. Suderow, A. Izquierdo, E. Bascones2 F. Guinea, and S. Vieira……Page 291
B. Elattari and S. Gurvitz……Page 292
References……Page 293
G. van Soest, F.J. Poelwijk, R. Sprik, and A. Lagendijk……Page 294
References……Page 295
X. Oriols, J.J. Garcia, F. Martın, and J. Sun……Page 296
References……Page 297
References……Page 298
J. Garcıa-Garcıa, F. Martın, X. Oriols, and J. Sune……Page 299
References……Page 300
V. Bellani, E. Diez et al…….Page 301
References……Page 302
References……Page 303
P. Orellana and F. Claro……Page 305
A. Bertoni, J. Garcıa-Garcıa, P. Bordone, R. Brunetti, and C. Jacoboni……Page 306
References……Page 308
J.A. Verges and E. Louis……Page 309
D. Porras, J. Fernandez-Rossier, and C. Tejedor……Page 311
References……Page 312
References……Page 314
References……Page 315
A. Perales, M. Moscoso, and L.L. Bonilla……Page 316
References……Page 317
F. Gonzalez-Padilla and F. Ritort……Page 318
X. Martınez-Hidalgo……Page 319
List of Participants……Page 320
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