Quantum Mesoscopic Phenomena and Mesoscopic Devices in Microelectronics

✍ Scribed by I. O. Kulik (auth.), Igor O. Kulik, Recai Ellialtioğlu (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 499
• Series: NATO Science Series 559
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Nonlinear Phenomena in Metallic Contacts....Pages 3-26
Conductance Channels of Gold Atomic-Size Contacts....Pages 27-34
Experiments on Conductance at the Atomic Scale....Pages 35-50
Why Does a Metal—Superconductor Junction Have a Resistance?....Pages 51-60
Point-Contact Spectroscopy of Superconductors....Pages 61-77
Atomic Structure, Quantized Electrical and Thermal Conductance of Nanowires....Pages 79-94
Magnetotransport and Magnetocohesion in Nanowires....Pages 95-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Mesoscopic Fluctuations of Co-Tunneling and Kondo Effect in Quantum Dots....Pages 105-128
Quantum Smearing of Coulomb Blockade....Pages 129-143
Coulomb Blockade in Single Tunnel Junction Connected to Nanowire and Carbon Nanotube....Pages 145-160
Transport through Quantum Dots and the Kondo Problem....Pages 161-167
Coulomb Blockade in Quantum Dots with Overlapping Resonances: Towards an Explanation of the Phase Behaviour in the Mesoscopic Double-Slit Experiment....Pages 169-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Dephasing and Shot-Noise in Mesoscopic Systems....Pages 185-210
Charge Fluctuations and Dephasing in Coulomb Coupled Conductors....Pages 211-242
Transport and Noise in Multiterminal Diffusive Conductors....Pages 243-250
Memory Effects in Stochastic Ratchets....Pages 251-256
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
Non-Decaying Currents in Normal Metals....Pages 259-282
Persistent Current in a Mesoscopic Ring with Strongly Coupled Polarons....Pages 283-292
Superfluidity and Planar Vortices in Systems with Pairing of Spatially Separated Electrons and Holes....Pages 293-298
Front Matter....Pages 299-299
Weakly Coupled Macroscopic Quantum Systems: Likeness with Difference....Pages 301-320
Front Matter....Pages 299-299
Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena in Josephson Systems....Pages 321-328
Vortex Confinement Phenomena in Mesoscopic Superconductors....Pages 329-345
Front Matter....Pages 347-347
Superconducting Nanoparticles and Nanowires....Pages 349-360
Superconductivity in Ultrasmall Grains: Introduction to Richardson’s Exact Solution....Pages 361-370
Superconductivity in Ultrasmall Metallic Particles....Pages 371-380
Tunneling Spectroscopy of Metallic Quantum Dots....Pages 381-396
Front Matter....Pages 397-397
Quantum Computation and Spin Electronics....Pages 399-428
Decoherence of the Superconducting Persistent Current Qubit....Pages 429-438
Quantum Computing and Josephson Junction Circuits....Pages 439-446
Front Matter....Pages 447-447
Recent Advances in Nanotechnology: An Overview....Pages 449-456
Quantum Electron Optics and its Applications....Pages 457-466
Physics and Applications of Photonic Crystals....Pages 467-478
Conductance in Metallic Submicron Cross-Junctions....Pages 479-484
Back Matter....Pages 485-498

✦ Subjects

Condensed Matter Physics;Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films;Solid State Physics;Spectroscopy and Microscopy;Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics