Quantum Mesoscopic Phenomena and Mesoscopic Devices in Microelectronics

by Igor O. Kulik (Editor), Recai Ellialtiogammalu (Editor)

Overview

Quantum mechanical laws are well documented at the level of a single or a few atoms and are here extended to systems containing 10² to 10¹⁰ electrons - still much smaller than the usual macroscopic objects, but behaving in a manner similar to a single atom. Besides the purely theoretical interest, such systems pose a challenge to the achievement of the ultimate microelectronic applications.
The present volume presents an up-to-date account of the physics, technology and expected applications of quantum effects in solid-state mesoscopic structures. Physical phenomena include the Aharonov-Bohm effect, persistent currents, Coulomb blockade and Coulomb oscillations in single electron devices, Andreev reflections and the Josephson effect in superconductor/normal/superconductor systems, shot noise suppression in microcontacts and contact resistance quantisation, and overall quantum coherence in mesoscopic and nanoscopic structures related to the emerging physics of quantum computation in the solid-state environment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792366263
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	10/31/2000
Series:	Nato Science Series C: , #559
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
Pages:	499
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

I Quantum Contacts and Wires.- 1 Nonlinear Phenomena in Metallic Contacts.- 2 Conductance Channels of Gold Atomic-Size Contacts.- 3 Experiments on Conductance at the Atomic Scale.- 4 Why does a Metal—Superconductor Junction Have a Resistance?.- 5 Point-Contact Spectroscopy of Superconductors.- 6 Atomic Structure Quantized Electrical and Thermal Conductance of Nanowires.- 7 Magnetotransport and Magneohesion in Nanowires.- II Qoulomb Blockade and the Kondo Problem.- 8 Mesoscopic Fluctuations of Co—Tunneling and Kondo Effect in Quantum Dots.- 9 Quantum Smearing of Coulomb Blockade.- 10 Coulomb Blockade in Single Tunnel Junction Connected to Nanowire and Carbon Nanotube.- 11 Transport Through Quantum Dots and the Kondo Problem.- 12 Coulomb Blockade in Quantum Dots with Overlapping Resonances.- III Dephasing and Shot Noise.- 13 Dephasing and Shot-Noise in Mesoscopic Systems.- 14 Charge Fluctuations and Dephasing in Coulomb Coupled Conductors.- 15 Transport and Noise in Multiterminal Diffusive Conductors.- 16 Memory Effects in Shastic Ratchets.- IV Aharonov-Bohm Effect and Vortices.- 17 Non-Decaying Currents in Normal Metals.- 18 Persistent Current in a Mesoscopic Ring with Strongly Coupled Polarons.- 19 Superfluidity and Planar Vortices in Systems with Pairing of Spatially Separated Electrons and Holes.- V Josephson Effect.- 20 Weakly Coupled Macroscopic Quantum Systems: Likeness with Difference.- 21 Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena in Josephson Systems.- 22 Vortex Confinement Phenomena in Mesoscopic Superconductors.- VI Mesoscopic Superconductivity.- 23 Superconducting Nanoparticles and Nanowires.- 24 Superconductivity in Ultrasmall Grains: Introduction to Richardson’s Exact Solution.- 25 Superconductivity in Ultrasmall Metallic Particles.- 26 TunnelingSpectroscopy of Metallic Quantum Dots.- VII Quantum Computation.- 27 Quantum Computation and Spin Electronics.- 28 Decoherence of the Superconducting Persistent Current Qubit.- 29 Quantum Computing and Josephson Junction Circuits.- VIII Nano-Electronics.- 30 Recent Advances in Nanotechnology: An Overview.- 31 Quantum Electron Optics and its Applications.- 32 Physics and Applications of Photonic Crystals.- 33 Conductance in Metallic Submicron Cross-Junctions.- Author Index.- Citation Index.