FKT first meeting h10 getting together, contacts course: Phy (tel. x2025) exercises: Phy (tel. x2029) online: → Vorlesungen (please register for Schein) www-MCG.uni-R.de/2005SS/ (exercises, …) fix the schedule Mon (Phy ) + Wed (H35)? course “rules” and “projects” commented ToC

April 2005 MoDiMiDoFrSaSo Mai 2005 MoDiMiDoFrSaSo Sonn- und Feiertage Ferientage Vorlesungsfreie Zeit Vorlesungszeit Berlin Sevilla instr. D. Tomanek schedule APR-MAY

Juni 2005 MoDiMiDoFrSaSo Juli 2005 MoDiMiDoFrSaSo Sonn- und Feiertage Ferientage Vorlesungsfreie Zeit Vorlesungszeit Göteborg instr. R. Heid schedule JUN-JUL

research projects (not-only-elite!) 1.Regensburg : 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:

hitting the quantum wall energy dissipation per logic operation K B T room temperature gate length (ITRS roadmap 2003) quantum limit nm indigo (years) (nm)

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, first integrated circuit the first integrated circuit by Jack S. Kilby, 1958www.ti.com ?

a quantum leap for electronics after Nature 394, (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

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

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