Résumé
Table of Contents
1 | Introduction and a Brief Review of Experimental Systems | 3 |
1 | Generalities | 3 |
2 | A Brief Description of Systems and Fabrication Methods | 6 |
2 | Quantum Transport, Anderson Localization | 12 |
1 | Basic Concepts | 12 |
Localization ideas | 14 | |
2 | Thermally Activated Conduction in the Localized Regime | 18 |
3 | The Thouless Picture, Localization in Thin Wires and Finite Temperature Effects | 21 |
4 | The Scaling Theory of Localization and its Consequences | 26 |
General | 26 | |
The case d [less than or equal] 2 | 27 | |
The case d > 2, the metal-insulator (M-I) transition | 30 | |
5 | The Weakly Localized Regime | 34 |
3 | Dephasing by Coupling with the Environment, Application to Coulomb Electron-Electron Interactions in Metals | 38 |
1 | Introduction and Review of the Principles of Dephasing | 38 |
2 | Dephasing by the Electron-Electron Interaction | 46 |
3 | Review of Results in Various Dimensions | 50 |
4 | Dephasing Time vs. Electron-Electron Scattering Time | 56 |
4 | Mesoscopic Effects in Equilibrium and Static Properties | 60 |
1 | Introductory Remarks, Thermodynamic Fluctuation Effects | 60 |
2 | Quantum Interference in Equilibrium Properties, Persistent Currents | 65 |
Generalities, simple situations | 65 | |
Independent electrons in disordered systems | 71 | |
The semiclassical picture | 75 | |
General results on ensemble-averaged persistent currents for constant N | 80 | |
Semiclassical theory of spectral correlations, applications to rings | 82 | |
Interaction effects on the persistent currents | 84 | |
5 | Quantum Interference Effects in Transport Properties, the Landauer Formulation and Applications | 89 |
1 | Generalities, Remarks on the Kubo Conductivity for Finite Systems | 89 |
2 | The Landauer-type Formulation for Conductance in a Mesoscopic System and Some of its Generalizations | 93 |
Introduction: the "single-channel" case | 93 | |
The multichannel Landauer formulation | 96 | |
The Onsager-type relationship in a magnetic field: generalized multiterminal conductance formulas | 103 | |
3 | Applications of the Landauer Formulation | 107 |
Series addition of quantum resistors, 1D localization | 107 | |
Parallel addition of quantum resistors, A-B oscillations of the conductance | 109 | |
On the universality of the conductance fluctuations | 120 | |
6 | The Quantum Hall Effect (QHE) | 124 |
1 | Introduction | 124 |
2 | General Arguments | 129 |
3 | Localization in Strong Magnetic Fields and the QHE | 133 |
4 | Brief Remarks on the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (FQHE) | 139 |
7 | Mesoscopics with Superconductivity | 147 |
1 | Introduction | 147 |
2 | Superconducting Rings and Thin Wires | 151 |
3 | Weakly Coupled Superconductors, the Josephson Effect and SNS Junctions | 160 |
The Bloch picture | 160 | |
The Josephson junction and other weak links | 163 | |
4 | Brief Remarks on Vortices | 165 |
5 | The Andreev Reflection, More on SN and SNS Junctions | 167 |
8 | Noise in Mesoscopic Systems | 176 |
1 | Introduction | 176 |
2 | Shot Noise for "Radiation" from a Reservoir | 178 |
3 | The Effect of Fluctuations in the Sink, the Equilibrium Limit | 181 |
4 | Low-Frequency (1-f) Noise | 185 |
9 | Concluding Remarks | 191 |
Appendices | ||
A | The Kubo, Linear Response, Formulation | 195 |
B | The Kubo-Greenwood Conductivity and the Edwards-Thouless Relationships | 198 |
C | The Aharonov-Bohm Effect and the Byers-Yang and Bloch Theorem | 200 |
D | Derivation of Matrix Elements in the Diffusion Regime | 201 |
E | Careful Treatment of Dephasing in 2D Conductors at Low Temperatures | 201 |
F | Anomalies in the Density of States (DOS) | 202 |
G | Quasiclassical Theory of Spectral Correlations | 204 |
H | Details of the Four-Terminal Formulation | 207 |
I | Universality of the Conductance Fluctuations in Terms of the Universal Correlation of Transmission Eigenvalues | 208 |
J | The Conductance of Ballistic "Point Contacts" | 209 |
References | 211 | |
Index | 231 |
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Oxford University Press |
Auteur(s) | Joseph Imry |
Parution | 17/12/2001 |
Édition | 2eme édition |
Nb. de pages | 236 |
Format | 16 x 24 |
Couverture | Relié |
Poids | 569g |
Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
EAN13 | 9780198507383 |
ISBN13 | 978-0-19-850738-3 |
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