Electronic quantum transport in mesoscopic semiconductor structures /
[Book]
Thomas Ihn
xi, 270 pages :
illustrations ;
25 cm
Springer tracts in modern physics,
v. 192
0081-3869 ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-265) and index
I. Introduction to electron transport -- 1. Electrical conductance: historical account from Ohm to the semiclassical Drude-Boltzmann theory -- 2. Toward the microscopic understanding of conductance on a quantum mechanical basis -- II. Conductance in strongly interacting and disordered two-dimensional systems -- 3. The concept of metals and insulators -- 4. Scaling theory of localization -- 5. Electron-electron interactions within the Fermi-liquid concept -- 6. Beyond Fermi-liquid theory -- 7. Summary of disorder and interaction effects -- 8. Experiments on strongly interacting two-dimensional systems and the metal-insulator transition -- 9. Theoretical work related to the metal-insulator transition -- 10. Metallic behavior in p-SiGe quantum wells -- III. Electron transport through quantum dots and quantum rings -- 11. Introduction to electron transport through quantum dots -- 12. Energy spectra of quantum rings -- 13. Spin filling in quantum dots -- IV. Local spectroscopy of semiconductor nanostructures -- 14. Instrumentation: scanning force microscopes for cryogenic temperatures and magnetic fields -- 15. Local investigation of a two-dimensional electron gas with an SFM at cryogenic temperatures -- 16. Local investigation of edge channels -- 17. Scanning gate measurements on a quantum wire -- A. Formal solution of the electrostatic problem witjh Green's functions -- B. Screened addition energy of an electron to a quantum ring -- C. Scattering in quantum wires -- D. Response of a harmonic oscillator to a resonance frequency step -- E. Acknowledgements -- F. List of symbols -- References -- Index