1. FKT first meeting 11.04.2005 h10 getting together, contacts course: Phy 4.1.29 (tel. x2025) G.Cuniberti@physik.uni-R.de exercises: Phy 4.1.30 (tel. x2029) Florian.Pump@physik.uni-R.de online: www.physik.uni-R.de → Vorlesungen (please register for Schein) www-MCG.uni-R.de/2005SS/ (exercises, …) fix the schedule Mon 10-12 (Phy 5.0.21) + Wed 08-10 (H35)? course “rules” and “projects” www.elitestudiengang.physik.uni-erlangen.de commented ToC

2. April 2005 MoDiMiDoFrSaSo 123 45678910 11121314151617 18192021222324 252627282930 Mai 2005 MoDiMiDoFrSaSo 1 2345678 9101112131415 16171819202122 23242526272829 3031 Sonn- und Feiertage Ferientage Vorlesungsfreie Zeit Vorlesungszeit Berlin Sevilla instr. D. Tomanek schedule APR-MAY

3. Juni 2005 MoDiMiDoFrSaSo 12345 6789101112 13141516171819 20212223242526 27282930 Juli 2005 MoDiMiDoFrSaSo 123 45678910 11121314151617 18192021222324 25262728293031 Sonn- und Feiertage Ferientage Vorlesungsfreie Zeit Vorlesungszeit Göteborg instr. R. Heid schedule JUN-JUL

4. research projects (not-only-elite!) 1.Regensburg 1975-2005: The Hofstadter butterfly for electrons in 2d and in CNTs. 2.Electrons in quasicrystals 3.Nanomechanics of molecular network 3.Molecular quantum dots more online under: www.elitestudiengang.physik.uni-erlangen.de

5. hitting the quantum wall energy dissipation per logic operation K B T room temperature gate length (ITRS roadmap 2003) http://public.itrs.net quantum limit 2035 1 nm indigo 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 1000 100 10 1 (years) (nm)

6. paradigm shifts: 1000€ buy… first transistor the first transistor. Brattain and Bardeen's pnp point-contact germanium transistor operated as a speech amplifier with a power gain of 18 on December 23, 1947 www.lucent.com first integrated circuit the first integrated circuit by Jack S. Kilby, 1958www.ti.com ?

7. a quantum leap for electronics after Nature 394, 131-132 (1998) microstructuresquantum wiresquantum point contacts quantum dots,semiconductors,molecular break junctions clusterscarbon nanotubesSTM low dimensional systems  quantum effects in the conductance! macroscopicmesoscopicmicroscopic  1 mm  1  m  1nm 1950 198019902000

8. suggested literature 1.Ulrich Rößler. Solid State Theory: An Introduction. Springer, 2004. 2.Gerd Czycholl. Theoretische Festkörperphysik. Springer, 2rd revised edition, 2004. 3.Lev Kantorovich. Quantum Theory of the Solid State: An Introduction. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. 4.Efthimios Kaxiras. Atomic and Electronic Structure of Solids. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003. 5.Yuri Galperin. Introduction to modern solid state physics (FYS 448). 6.Otfried Madelung. Introduction to Solid-State Theory. Springer, 3rd reprint edition, 1996. 7.Charles Kittel. Quantum Theory of Solids. Series in Modern Condensed Matter Physics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2nd revised edition, 1987. 8.Henrik Bruus and Karsten Flensberg. Many-Body Quantum Theory in Condensed Matter Physics: An Introduction. Oxford Graduate Texts. Oxford University Press, New York, 2004. 9.Peter Fulde. Electron Correlations in Molecules and Solids, volume 100 of Solid State Sciences. Springer, Berlin, 3rd edition, 1995. 10.Gerald D. Mahan. Many-Particle Physics. Plenum Press, New York, 3nd edition, 2000.

9. Solid State Theory: content 1.The solid as a many body problem 2.Phonons 3.(Free) electrons in a periodic potential 4.Correlated electrons 5.Futher many body effects (one of the following depending on time and interest).electron-phonon coupling.electron transport in solids.electrons in an external magnetic field.spin waves: magnons. disorder and localization