| Class Times: |
| Wednesday, 15:15-16:45, Room 114, Brüderstrasse 16 |
| Friday, 13:15-14:45, Room 114, Brüderstrasse 16 |
| Tutorial Times: |
Wednesday, 15:15-16:45, Room 114, Brüderstrasse 16
To be announced in the lectures |
| Content: |
- Resistance of ideal quantum wires
- Quantum interference in nanostructures
- Dephasing (quantum to classical transition)
- Noise
- Localization
- Conductance Fluctuations
- Quantum Dots and Coulomb blockade
- Aharonov-Bohm effect
- Superconductivity (Cooper pair, Ginzburg Landau, Josephson effect)
- Quantum Hall effect
- Superconducting Qubits
- Quantum Bits and Quantum Gates
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| Recommended Reading: |
| Y. Imry, "Introduction to mesoscopic physics", Oxford University Press |
| T. Ihn, "Semiconductor Nanostructures", Oxford University Press
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| N. Mermin, "Quantum Computer Science", Cambridge University Press
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| Yuli V. Nazzarov and M. Blanter, "Quantum Transport ", Cambridge University Press
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- Talks Timetable ;
- Ballistic transport in graphene [Ilay Holz];
- Quantum algorithms [Kalyani Suresh];
- Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene at Room Temperature [Efraín Insuasti Pazmiño];
- Direct observation of anyonic braiding statistics [Tom-Lukas Lübbeke];
- Random matrices [Johannes Ewald];