When: April-May 2013
Where: Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Level: graduate

Program of the course

1. Boltzmann equation for impurity scattering: di-usion and Drude conductivity
2. Anderson localization in three dimensions
3. Localization in one dimension, transfer matrix technique and Fokker-Planck equation, Landauer formula
4. Diagrammatic technique for disorder averaging, self-consistent Born approximation
5. Average density response function, Drude conductivity, scaling theory of localization
6. Interference corrections to conductivity
7. Effect of disorder on electron-electron collisions
8. Hopping conduction in insulators
9. Density of states near the Fermi level
10. Transport through quantum dots, Coulomb blockade

Notes are available upon request.