Dissipative Quantum Mechanics of Nanostructures: Electron Transport, Fluctuations, and Interactions

ISBN-13: 9789814774505 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 926 str.

Andrei D. Zaikin; Dmitry Golubev

Opis

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive coverage of the physical ideas, theoretical methods, and key results of the rapidly developing field of quantum transport and the macroscopic quantum phenomena that take place in the wealth of the available nanoscale structures.

Spis treści

1. Quantum Mechanics with Dissipation: Influence Functional Theory  2. Dissipative Quantum Mechanics of Superconducting Junctions  3. Quantum Particle in a Dissipative Environment  4. Quantum Tunneling with Dissipation  5. Macroscopic Quantum Coherence and Dissipation  6. Quantum Dynamics of Phase and Charge in Josephson Junctions  7. Coulomb Effects in Metallic Tunnel Junctions  8. Quantum Particle in a Diffusive Electron Gas  9. Influence Functional for Interacting Electrons in Disordered Metals  10. Effective Action for Coherent Scatterers  11. Coulomb Effects in Short Coherent Conductors  12. Charging Effects in Metallic Quantum Dots  13. Coulomb Blockade in Quantum Dot Chains and Metallic Wires  14. Weak Localization and Electron Dephasing in Disordered Conductors I: Metallic Limit  15. Weak Localization and Electron Dephasing in Disordered Conductors II: Beyond Quasiclassics  16. Electron Transport, Fluctuations, and Coulomb Effects in Normal-Superconducting Hybrids  17. Superconducting Contacts beyond the Tunneling Limit  18. Effective Action and Superconducting Fluctuations
19. Thermal and Quantum Phase Slips in Superconducting Nanowires  20. Persistent Currents in Superconducting Nanorings