Quantum Transport

Quantum transport is a diverse field, sometimes combining seemingly contradicting concepts – quantum and classical, conduction and insulating – within a single nanodevice. Quantum transport is an essential and challenging part of nanoscience, and understanding its concepts and methods is vital to the successful fabrication of devices at the nanoscale. This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly developing field of quantum transport. The authors present the comprehensive theoretical background, and explore the groundbreaking experiments that laid the foundations of the field. Ideal for graduate students, each section contains control questions and exercises to check readers’ understanding of the topics covered. Its broad scope and in-depth analysis of selected topics will appeal to researchers and professionals working in nanoscience.

Author Biography

Yaroslav M. Blanter is an Associate Professor in the theory group at the Delft University of Technology. Previous to this he was a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Karlsruhe and a Senior Assistant at the University of Geneva. Yuli V. Nazarov is a theorist at Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. from Landau Institute for theoretical physics in 1985, and has worked in the field of quantum transport since the late 1980s.