PROGRAM
NATO Advanced Study Institute
on "Mesoscopic Electron Transport"
Curaçao, June 25-July 5 1996.
Day 1 and Day 2 will be held in 3 different rooms. These tutorial
lectures are meant as basic introductions for participants not
working on these particular subjects. Participants stay in one
particular room while the lecturers rotate. The lecturers thus
give their intro talk three times. The time schedule for the first
two days applies just to one of the rooms. With these first two days
we hope to create an open atmosphere in which people dare to ask
questions and that this is carried over to the remaining days.
DAY 1 TUESDAY JUNE 25 BASIC INTRODUCTIONS 1
8:30 - 9:30 Transport through small structures in a two
dimensional electron gas.
L. Kouwenhoven (Delft)
9:30 - 10:30 Scattering approach to electrical transport.
M. Büttiker (Geneva)
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 Superconductivity: Basic concepts.
M. Tinkham (Harvard)
12:00 - 13:00 Single electron charging effects.
D. Esteve (Saclay)
15:00 - 16:00 Quantum interference effects.
C. van Haesendonck (Leuven)
16:00 - 17:00 STM/AFM
L. Sohn (Princeton)
17:00 - 17:30 Break
17:30 - 18:30 Fabrication of nanostructures.
S. Tarucha (NTT)
DAY 2 WEDNESDAY JUNE 26 BASIC INTRODUCTIONS 2
8:30 - 9:30 Luttinger Liquids.
H. Grabert (Freiburg)
9:30 - 10:30 Shot noise in mesoscopic systems
M. de Jong (Philips)
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 Tunneling into interacting systems.
L. Glazman (Minnesota)
12:00 - 13:00 Many-body theory and real-time diagrammatic
perturbation expansions.
G. Schِn (Karlsruhe)
15:00 - 16:00 Double barrier resonant tunneling structures.
L. Eaves (Nottingham)
16:00 - 17:00 Random Matrix Theory.
C. Beenakker (Leiden)
17:00 - 17:30 Break
17:30 - 18:30 Electronic properties of charge density wave conductors.
M. Visscher (Delft)
DAY 3 THURSDAY JUNE 27 MESO-SUPERCONDUCTORS 1
9:00 - 9:45 Introduction to superconductor - semiconductor systems.
B. van Wees (Groningen)
9:45 - 10:30 Induced superconductivity in a chaotic cavity.
C. Beenakker (Leiden)
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45 Proximity effect revisited; part I.
D. Esteve (Saclay)
11:45 - 12:30 Mesoscopic effects in gated superconductor-semiconductor
junctions.
H. Takayanagi (NTT)
CONTRIBUTED TALKS 1
14:00 - 14:30 Reentrant proximity-induced Meissner effect in mesoscopic
cylinders of Ag and Cu.
A. Mota (ETH Zürich)
14:30 - 15:00 Parity-affected superconductivity in ultra small metallic grains.
J. von Delft (Karlsruhe)
15:00 - 15:30 Classical and Quantal Chaos in Andreev Billiards.
P. Goldbart (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 16:30 Vortex localization phenomena in one-dimensional Josephson
junction arrays.
A. van Oudenaarden (Delft)
16:30 - 17:00 Phase-coherent transport through d-wave superconducting
structures.
C. Lambert
18:30 - 21:30 Posters
DAY 4 FRIDAY JUNE 28 MESO-SEMICONDUCTORS 1
9:00 - 9:45 Introduction to transport in quantum dots.
P. McEuen (Berkeley)
9:45 - 10:30 Dynamic conductance of mesoscopic structures.
M. Büttiker (Geneva)
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45 Vertical resonant tunneling structures.
L. Eaves (Nottingham)
11:45 - 12:30 The Coulomb blockade in tunnel-coupled quantum dots; part I.
R. Westervelt (Harvard)
CONTRIBUTED TALKS 2
14:00 - 14:30 A new class of resonances at the edge of the two dimensional
electron gas.
R. Ashoori (MIT)
14:30 - 15:00 Statistics and Fluctuations of Quantum Dots.
C. Marcus (Stanford)
15:00 - 15:30 Conductance of an artificial molecule.
D. Pfannkuche (Max Planck, Stuttgart)
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 16:30 Berry phase effects in mesoscopic systems.
D. Loss (Simon Fraser University)
16:30 - 17:00 Coherent electronic dynamics in ballistic microstructure
under time dependent external field.
L. Gorelik (Chalmers)
18:30 - 21:30 Posters
DAY 5 SATURDAY JUNE MESO-SUPERCONDUCTORS 2
9:00 - 9:45 Proximity effect revisited; part II.
D. Esteve (Saclay)
9:45 - 10:30 Coherent quasiparticle transport in superconductor / 2DEG
Andreev interferometers.
B. van Wees (Groningen)
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45 Even-odd effects in mesoscopic superconductors.
M. Tinkham (Harvard)
11:45 - 12:30 Mesoscopic circuits of superconducting tunnel junctions.
H. Mooij (Delft)
GENERAL THEORY 1
14:00 - 14:45 Theory of resonant tunneling; part I.
H. Schoeller (Karlsruhe)
14:45 - 15:30 Edge Magneto Plasmons.
L. Glazman (Minnesota)
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 16:45 Coherent charge transfer resonances and fluctuations in
mesoscopic rings coupled to quantum dots.
M. Büttiker (Geneva)
16:45 - 17:30 Geometric phases in mesoscopic systems.
A. Stern (Weizmann)
DAY 6 SUNDAY JUNE 30 Free
DAY 7 MONDAY JULY 1 MESO-SEMICONDUCTORS 2
9:00 - 9:45 The mesoscopic quantum Hall regime.
P. McEuen (Berkeley)
9:45 - 10:30 Few-electron vertical quantum dots.
S. Tarucha (NTT)
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45 The Coulomb blockade in tunnel-coupled quantum dots; part II.
R. Westervelt (Harvard)
11:45 - 12:30 Time-dependent transport in quantum dots.
N. Wingreen (NEC Princeton)
CONTRIBUTED TALKS 3
14:00 - 14:30 Transport in inhomogeneous Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid model.
V. Ponomarenko (RIKEN)
14:30 - 15:00 Localization transitions and magnetoresistance in normal
conductor and superconductor quench-condensed granular wires.
A. Herzog (UC San Diego).
15:00 - 15:30 Mesoscopic partition noise.
R. Liu (Stanford)
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 16:30 Test of the quantum noise reduction using quantum point contacts.
D. Glattli (Saclay)
16:30 - 17:00 Observation of hot-electron shot noise in a metallic resistor.
A. Steinbach (NIST)
18:30 - 21:30 Posters
DAY 8 TUESDAY JULY 2 LUTTINGER LIQUIDS
9:00 - 9:45 Transport in a Luttinger liquid.
M. Fisher (UC Santa Barbara)
9:45 - 10:30 Friedel oscillations in a Luttinger liquid.
H. Grabert (Freiburg)
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45 Quantum charge fluctuations in double dots.
L. Glazman (Minnesota)
11:45 - 12:30 Properties of Luttinger liquids with superconducting contacts.
R. Fazio (Catania)
GENERAL THEORY 2
14:00 - 14:45 Theory of resonant tunneling; part II.
H. Schoeller (Karlsruhe)
14:45 - 15:30 Phase coherent amplification of light in random media.
C. Beenakker (Leiden)
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 16:45 Electron and exciton transport in polymers.
M. de Jong (Philips)
16:45 - 17:30 The Kondo effect in quantum dots.
N. Wingreen (NEC Princeton)
DAY 9 WEDNESDAY JULY 3 ATOMIC CONTACTS 1
9:00 - 9:45 STM measurements of quantum interference in atomic
scale structures.
M. Crommie (Boston)
9:45 - 10:30 Quantum properties of electron scattering from defects in
metallic point contacts.
D. Ralph (Cornell/Harvard)
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45 Measuring the resistance of a carbon nanotube.
C. van Haesendonck (Leuven)
11:45 - 12:30 Scanning probes on a nanoscale: from vortex cores to
quantum caverns.
H. Hess (Bell labs, Lucent Technologies)
15:00 - 22:00 free
DAY 10 THURSDAY JULY 4 GENERAL THEORY 3
9:00 - 9:45 Quantum computers and spin physics; part I.
D. DiVincenzo (IBM)
9:45 - 10:30 Quantum optics and measurements; part I.
Y. Yamamoto (Stanford)
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45 Impurities and edge states in the fractional quantum
Hall effect.
M. Fisher (UC Santa Barbara).
11:45 - 12:30 Composite Fermions with orbital magnetization.
A. Stern (Weizmann)
CONTRIBUTED TALKS 4
14:00 - 14:30 Non-universal conductance quantization in a quantum wire.
A. Yacoby (Bell labs, Lucent Technologies)
14:30 - 15:00 Non-equilibrium quantum noise in chiral Luttinger liquids.
C. de C. Chamon (MIT)
15:00 - 15:30 Break
ATOMIC CONTACTS 2
15:30 - 16:15 Energy levels inside metal nanoparticles;
Interacting electrons in a box.
D. Ralph (Harvard)
16:15 - 17:00 Atom-size junctions of metals and superconductors.
J. Ruitenbeek (Leiden)
20:00 - 20:45 Conductance quantization at room temperature:
theory and experiments.
N. Garcia (Madrid)
20:45 - 21:30 STM and transport.
M. Crommie (Boston)
DAY 11 FRIDAY JULY 5 GENERAL THEORY 3
8:30 - 9:15 Delocalization by interactions.
Y. Imry (Weizmann)
9:15 - 10:00 Quantum optics and measurements; part II.
Y. Yamamoto (Stanford)
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:15 Quantum computers and spin physics; part II.
D. DiVincenzo (IBM)
11:15 - 12:45 Closing remarks