Abstract

"Many-body physics and quantum chaos in mesoscopic systems"

Experimental advances in the miniaturization of electronic devices have made nanoscale electronic systems routinely available in the laboratory, which at low temperatures are suffiently well isolated from their environment to be considered as fully coherent.

Some of their most important properties are dominated by the interactions between electrons. Understanding their behavior therefore requires a description of the interplay between interference effects and interactions.

In this talk I will address this relatively broad issue, and more specifically discuss it from the perspective of the quantum chaos community. I will therefore present some of the concepts developed in the field of quantum chaos which have application to the study of many-body effects in mesoscopic and nanoscale systems.

Their implementation is illustrated by a few examples of experimental
relevance such as persistent currents, and Coulomb blockade.

Please come meet the speaker over refreshments from 3:45-4:10pm in the foyer on floor G above the lecture hall. All Welcome Host: Steven Tomsovic