Boulder School 2005: Reading Material | Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

N.O.Birge (Michigan)	Quantum interference and relaxation Review Article http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0401182 Phys. Rev. Let. 79, 3491 (1997) http://prola.aps.org/pdf/PRL/v79/i18/p3490_1
L.I. Glazman (Minnesota)	Interaction effects in quantum dots http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0501007
B.I. Halperin (Harvard)	Spin related physics; quantum Hall effect References for first two lectures
C.L. Kane (Penn)	Electrons in one dimension Original Luttinger Liquid articles F.D.M. Haldane J. Phys. C 14, 2585 (1981). http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/~kane/Boulder/HaldaneJPC.pdf C.L. Kane and M.P.A. Fisher, Phys. Rev. B 46, 15233 (1992). http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/~kane/Boulder/KaneFisherPRB.pdf Luttinger Liquid and Bosonization review articles http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/~kane/Boulder/FisherGlazmanReview.pdf D. Senechal, cond-mat/9908262 http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/~kane/Boulder/SenechalReview.pdf Nanotube Theory articles C.L. Kane and E.J. Mele, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 1932 (1997). http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/~kane/Boulder/KaneMelePRL.pdf C.L. Kane, L. Balents and M.P.A. Fisher Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 5086 (1997) http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/~kane/Boulder/KBFPRL.pdf Quantum Hall Edge State review articles C.L. Kane and M.P.A. Fisher, in “Perspectives in Quantum Hall Effects” http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/~kane/Boulder/EdgeStateReview.pdf A.M. Chang, Rev. Mod. Phys 75 No. 4, 1449 (2003). http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/~kane/Boulder/ChangReview.pdf
L.S. Levitov (MIT)	Topics in nonequilibrium electron transport Review on Noise http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0210284 Recent Articles http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0405383 http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0411180
C.M. Marcus (Harvard)	Quantum dot mesoscopics Experiment Reviews: Easy, Friendly overview of Quantum Dots http://marcuslab.harvard.edu/papers/physicsworld.pdf Review of Coulomb Blockade Physics in Quantum Dots http://marcuslab.harvard.edu/papers/KouwenhovenReview.pdf Review of Quantum Information Processing Using Spins in Dots http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0409294 Gate Manipulation of Few Electron Dots http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0412048 Theory Reviews: Mesoscopic Coulomb Blockade Effects http://marcuslab.harvard.edu/papers/A_B_G_Review.pdf Statistical (Random Matrix) Approaches in Quantum Dots http://marcuslab.harvard.edu/alhassid.pdf
K.A. Matveev (Argonne National Laboratory)	Seminar Conductance of a quantum wire at low electron density, K. A. Matveev, Phys. Rev. B 70, 245319 (2004)
R.J. Schoelkopf (Yale)	Noise and quantum measurement “Quantum Fluctuations in Electrical Circuits,” M.H. Devoret, Les Houches Lecture Notes, 1997. “Qubits as Spectrometers of Quantum Noise,” R.J. Schoelkopf, et al., cond-mat/0210247 “Amplifying Quantum Signals with the Single-Electron Transistor,” M.H. Devoret and R.J. Schoelkopf, Nature 406, p. 1039, 2000.
A.D. Stone (Yale)	Ballistic transport Quantum-Chaotic Scattering Effects in Semiconductor Microstructures Theory of Coherent Quantum Transport Transport Theory of Mesoscopic Systems: Application to Ballistic Transport Semiclassical Theory of Chaotic Quantum Transport Einstein’s Unknown Insight and the Problem of Quantizing Chaos