Quantum Dots: a Doorway to Nanoscale Physics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Heiss, W. Dieter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 667
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum physics.; Condensed matter.; Quantum Physics.; Condensed Matter Physics.

Quantum dots, often denoted artificial atoms, are the exquisite tools by which quantum behavior can be probed on a scale appreciably larger than the atomic scale, that is on the nanometer scale. In this way, the physics of the devices is closer to classical physics than that of atomic physics but th...

Table of Contents:

• The Renormalization Group Approach – From Fermi Liquids to Quantum Dots (R. Shankar)
• Semiconductor Few-Electron Quantum Dots as Spin Qubits (J.M. Elzerman et al.)
• Low-Temperature Conduction of a Quantum Dot (M. Pustilnik and L. Glazman)
• Andreev Billiards (C.W.J. Beenakker).