Electronic transport in disordered systems
When : April-May 2013
Where : Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Level : graduate
Program of the course
- Boltzmann equation for impurity scattering : di-usion and Drude conductivity
- Anderson localization in three dimensions
- Localization in one dimension, transfer matrix technique and Fokker-Planck equation, Landauer formula
- Diagrammatic technique for disorder averaging, self-consistent Born approximation
- Average density response function, Drude conductivity, scaling theory of localization
- Interference corrections to conductivity
- Effect of disorder on electron-electron collisions
- Hopping conduction in insulators
- Density of states near the Fermi level
- Transport through quantum dots, Coulomb blockade
Notes are available upon request.