József Cserti - Department of Physics of Complex Systems
Mesoscopic systems I.
(started in 1999!)
“In mesoscopic physics, you really need to build up intuition, because it is not the world you know."
Carlo W. J. Beenakker
Additional course materials
- The transmission of a quantum ring in terms of the S-matrix formalism. Dr. Thomas Heinzel: Mesoscopic Electronics in Solid State Nanostructures. [html] [iphyton source]
- Landau levels and wave functions, the electric current density for a finite width of strip, bending of the energy bands and edge states. [html] [iphyton source]
- Jupyter notebooks written by László Oroszlány to study mesoscopic systems
- For theoretical investigation of quantum transport phenomena see e.g.: Eötvös Quantum Transport Group
References
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Suggested notes and books:
- József Cserti's handwritten notes (Hungarian) [pdf]
- Supriyo Datta: Electronic Transport in Mesoscopic Systems, Cambridge University Press 2013. Links in László Oroszlány's homepage:
- Short introduction to the transport formalism with Green's functions (Hungarian) [pdf]
- Short note about 1d Green's functions, will grow with time [pdf]
- Thesis of Stefano Sanvito -- a nice and pedagogic introduction of the transport formalism (English) [pdf]
- Thesis of Michael Wimmer -- a really thorogh introduction to the transport formalism (English)
- A paper by Ivan Rungger and Stefano Sanvito -- a good summary of the formalism (English)
- Eleftherios N. Economou: Green's Functions in Quantum Physics, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006. Additional readings:
- Jenő Sólyom: Fundamentals of the Physics of Solids: Volume 1: Structure and Dynamics, Springer; 2007 edition
- Jenő Sólyom: Fundamentals of the Physics of Solids: Volume II: Electronic Properties, Springer; 2009 edition
- N. W. Ashcroft, N. D. Mermin: Solid State Physics (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1976)
- Charles Kittel: Introduction to Solid State Physics (Wiley, 8 edition, 2004)