Quantum Chaos and Quantum Dots

Quantum Chaos and Quantum Dots
Author: Katsuhiro Nakamura
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2004
Genre: Mesoscopic phenomena (Physics).
ISBN: 9780198525899

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Dynamics of billiard balls and their role in physics have received wide attention since the monumental lecture by Lord Kelvin at the turn of the 19th century. Billiards can nowadays be created as quantum dots in the microscopic world enabling one to envisage the so-called quantum chaos, i.e.quantum manifestation of chaos of billiard balls. In fact, owing to recent progress in advanced technology, nanoscale quantum dots, such as chaotic stadium and antidot lattices analogous to the Sinai Billiard, can be fabricated at the interface of semiconductor heterojunctions. This book begins itsexploration of the effect of chaotic electron dynamics on ballistic quantum transport in quantum dots with a puzzling experiment on resistance fluctuations for stadium and circle dots. Throughout the text, major attention is paid to the semiclassical theory which makes it possible to interpretquantum phenomena in the language of the classical world. Chapters one to four are concerned with the elementary statistical methods (curvature, Lyapunov exponent, Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy and escape rate), which are needed for a semiclassical description of transport in quantum dots. Chapters fiveto ten discuss the topical subjects in the field, including the ballistic weak localization, Altshuler-Aronov-Spivak oscillation, partial time-reversal symmetry, persistent current, Arnold diffusion and Coulomb blockade.

Quantum Chaos and Mesoscopic Systems

Quantum Chaos and Mesoscopic Systems
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1997
Genre:
ISBN:

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The interplay of classical chaotic properties and of quantum coherence effects is crucially important in mesoscopic physics, as it gives rise to transport fluctuations and quantum localization. We have studied both effects in different models. The results we have obtained are potentially relevant to all fields of Quantum Chaology, with possible experimental applications in the domains of Atomic Physics, Mesoscopic Physics, and Classical wave propagation (e.g. acoustic, microwave and optical resonators.

Quantum Dots

Quantum Dots
Author: Serguei Vorojtsov
Publisher:
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2005
Genre: Coulomb potential
ISBN:

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Nuclei and Mesoscopic Physics

Nuclei and Mesoscopic Physics
Author: Vladimir Zelevinsky
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2005-07-22
Genre: Science
ISBN:

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The goal of the Workshop was to open the way for exchange of ideas between physicists working in different areas of quantum physics but studying the objects of mesoscopic nature which reveal important generic features and allow for similar approaches. Among these objects are complex nuclei, atoms and molecules, nanoscale condensed matter systems, atomic clusters, atoms in traps, prototypes of quantum computers etc. The Workshop WNMP-2004 was organized with the idea of bringing together researchers actively working on the multitude of mesoscopic problems in various areas and, through cross-fertilizing discussions, make an attempt to bridge the existing gaps, find a common language and clean the way for future collaborations. The topics of common interest included general features of mesoscopic systems; experimental, theoretical and computational methods used for their studies; coherent phenomena, such as superfluidity and superconductivity; many-body quantum chaos; marginally stable and open systems; phase transitions and thermodynamic properties (an exciting subject with contradictory opinions reflected in the Proceedings).