Boulder School 2005: Reading Material

Quantum interference and relaxation

• Review Article
  http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0401182
• Phys. Rev. Let. 79, 3491 (1997)
  http://prola.aps.org/pdf/PRL/v79/i18/p3490_1

Interaction effects in quantum dots

• http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0501007

Spin related physics; quantum Hall effect

• References for first two lectures

Electrons in one dimension

• Original Luttinger Liquid articles
  • F.D.M. Haldane J. Phys. C 14, 2585 (1981). 
  • C.L. Kane and M.P.A. Fisher, Phys. Rev. B 46, 15233 (1992). 
• Luttinger Liquid and Bosonization review articles
  • M.P.A. Fisher and L.I. Glazman, NATO ASI Series, 345, 331 (1997)
  • D. Senechal, cond-mat/9908262 
• Nanotube Theory articles
  • C.L. Kane and E.J. Mele, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 1932 (1997). 
  • C.L. Kane, L. Balents and M.P.A. Fisher Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 5086 (1997) 
• Quantum Hall Edge State review articles
  • C.L. Kane and M.P.A. Fisher, in “Perspectives in Quantum Hall Effects” 
  • A.M. Chang, Rev. Mod. Phys 75 No. 4, 1449 (2003). 

Topics in nonequilibrium electron transport

• Review on Noise
  http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0210284
• Recent Articles
  http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0405383
  http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0411180

Quantum dot mesoscopics

• Experiment Reviews:
  • Easy, Friendly overview of Quantum Dots
    Phys. World 11 (6) 35 (1998)
  • Review of Coulomb Blockade Physics in Quantum Dots
    XXXVIth Moriond Workshop, Electronic Correlations: from Meso- to Nano-Physics - January 20-27, 2001
  • Review of Quantum Information Processing Using Spins in Dots
    Quantum Information Processing 3 (1), 115-132 (2004)
  • Gate Manipulation of Few Electron Dots
    Phys. Rev. B 72, 161301 (2005)
• Theory Reviews:
  • Mesoscopic Coulomb Blockade Effects
    arxiv cond-mat 8907311
  • Statistical (Random Matrix) Approaches in Quantum Dots - Alhassid
    Rev. Mod. Phys. 72, 895 (2000)

Seminar

• Conductance of a quantum wire at low electron density, K. A. Matveev, Phys. Rev. B 70, 245319 (2004)

Noise and quantum measurement

• “Quantum Fluctuations in Electrical Circuits,” M.H. Devoret, Les Houches Lecture Notes, 1997.
• “Qubits as Spectrometers of Quantum Noise,” R.J. Schoelkopf, et al., cond-mat/0210247
• “Amplifying Quantum Signals with the Single-Electron Transistor,” M.H. Devoret and R.J. Schoelkopf, Nature 406, p. 1039, 2000.

Ballistic transport

• Quantum-Chaotic Scattering Effects in Semiconductor Microstructures
• Theory of Coherent Quantum Transport
• Transport Theory of Mesoscopic Systems: Application to Ballistic Transport
• Semiclassical Theory of Chaotic Quantum Transport
• Einstein’s Unknown Insight and the Problem of Quantizing Chaos