Scientific Program & Lecture Notes

First day of the School (Monday, 14 December 2009)

08:15 - 08:45 Registration

08:45 - 09:00 Opening

• Welcome speech of Prof. Duong Ngoc Hai, Vice President of Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST)
  
• Welcome speech of Prof. Sandro Scandolo, School Director
  

Lectures start at 09:00

Time Table

Participants are invited to give a talk on the interested topics at the contributed sessions. Please register it with the secretary.

Lecture Notes

Sandro SCANDOLO:

• Lecture 1: Atomistic methods in computational nanoscience: Molecular dynamics, Density Functional Theory
• Lecture 2: Examples: (a) water nanoclusters; (b) molecules on surfaces

Robert SHEKHTER: Mesoscopic Nanoelectromechanics of Shuttle Systems

• Lecture 1: Mechanically assisted single-electronics
• Lecture 2: Quantum coherent nanoelectromechanics
• Lecture 3: Mechanically assisted superconductivity

Peter FULDE: Electron correlations on nano- and subnano scale

Mikhail KISELEV: Electron transport through nanostructures

• Lecture 1: Quantum Dots: Coulomb blockade, tunneling, co-tunneling
• Lecture 2: Kondo effect in nano-devices
• Lecture 3: From Fermi liquid to Luttinger liquid

Ralph GEBAUER:

• Lecture 1: Computer simulations beyond the electronic ground state
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• Lecture 2: Computational approach to nanoscale photovoltaic devices

Marco Buongiorno NARDELLI: Carbon nanotubes: a nanoscale theoretical laboratory

• Lecture 1: Mechanical properties
• Lecture 2: Electronic transport
• Lecture 3: Chemical functionalization

Erio TOSATTI:

• Lecture 1: Physics of metal nanocontacts
• Lecture 2: Nanofriction: physics and simulation

Konstantin EFETOV

• Lecture 1: Granular materials consisting of normal metal grains
• Lecture 2: Granular materials consisting of superconductor grains

Francesco MAURI: Vibrational spectroscopies and electronic transport in graphene and carbon-nanotubes

• Lecture 1: Raman spectroscopy of few-layer graphene
• Counting the number of layers
• Determining the doping charge
• Lecture 2: High current transport: carbon-nanotubes and graphene, materials for future interconnects?
• Lecture 3: Cutting graphene into ribbons for device applications: atomic, electronic and chemical structure of (cut) edges.

Igor ALEINER: Disorder and chaos in quantum systems: Anderson localization and its generalization

• Lecture 1: "Metals and insulators"
• Drude theory of metals: (what is classical and what is quantum?)
• Why are the insulators stable with respect to tunneling? (first glimpse into Anderson localization)
• Why does Anderson insulator conduct at finite temperature? (first glimpse into inelastic processes in insulators)
• Lecture 2: "Metals in more details"
• Weak localization. Divergences in two- and one- dimension. Magnetoresistance. First glimpse into role of inelastic processes in metals
• Interaction effects. Scattering on the Friedel oscillations. Inelastic electron-electron scatterings
• Lecture 3: "Insulators in more details"
• Fixed range hopping. Miller-Abrahams network. Percolation agruments
• Mott variable range hopping
• AC conductivity in the localized regime
• Coulomb interaction and Efros-Shklovskii variable range hopping

Boris ALTSHULER: Disorder and chaos in quantum systems II

• Lecture 1: Introduction
• Lecture 2: Quantum chaos, integrability and localization
• Lecture 3: Anderson transition beyond real space, localization in the space of quantum numbers

Vladimir FALKO: Electronic properties and quantum effects in the electronic transport in graphene

• Lecture 1 & 2: Electrons in monolayer graphene
• Tight binding model of electronic bands in graphene
• Dirac type electrons π Dirac-electrons, Berry phase π, and trigonal warping correction
• pn junction in graphene
• Lecture 3: Electronic properties of bilayer graphene
• Symmetry, effective low-energy Hamiltonian for chiral electrons bilayer and monolayer material
• Quantum Hall effect in bilayer and monolayer graphene

Vladimir KRAVTSOV: Spectral and wavefunction statistics

• Lecture 1: Level statistics of non-interacting electrons in quantum dots
• Quantum dots and random matrices
• Level repulsion
• Introduction to random matrix theory
• Lecture 2: Wavefunction statistics in zero- one- and two-dimensional systems
• Porter-Thomas statistics in quantum dots
• Wavefunction statistics in one-dimensional disordered chains
• Weak multifractality in two-dimensional disordered conductors

Gianluigi CATELANI: Kinetic equation and noise in open dots

Contributed Talks

P. Ravirajan: Nanostructured Metal Oxide: Polymer Photovoltaic Devices

Vincent Sacksteder: Controlling the Fermions in Models of Disordered Conduction

David John Thiruvadigal: Electron Transport through Molecular Electronic Devices

Thanh Nguyen: Effect of magnetic field on thermoelectric coefficients of a single electron transistor at almost perfect transmission

Efta Yudiarsah: Torsional Vibration Dependence on Transport Properties of DNA Molecules

Nhung Nguyen: Combined studies of cell response to electric pulses: A simple approach