Electronic Transport in Meso- and Nano-Scale Conductors – HS 2008

Script:

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Content:

• Scattering problems in one dimension
• Waveguides – Multi-channel scattering problems
• Persistent current
• Coulomb blockade in a quantum dot
• Scattering matrix approach to transport
• Scattering matrix approach: the second-quantized formalism
• Quantum and thermal noise
• Full counting statistics