Here is a nonexhaustive list of references, textbooks, review articles, or web-based lecture notes that are more or less closely related to one or more topics that will be adressed in the class.


GENERAL TEXTBOOKS

  1. N. Ashcroft and D. Mermin, Solid State Physics, Saunders College (1976).
    Classic book on condensed matter physics

MESOSCOPIC PHYSICS TEXTBOOKS

  1. S. Datta, Electronic Transport in Mesoscopic Systems, Cambridge (2003).
    Good book, containing most of what will be discussed, except chapters 2 (persistent currents) and 6 (quantum dots). It is yet not clear, as of march 11 2004, whether chapter 5 on decoherence will follow the line of thoughts of this book. But if you want to buy one book, this is the one.
  2. Y. Imry, Introduction to Mesoscopic Physics}, Oxford.
    I am not sure this book is adequate for an introductory class in mesoscopic physics - it seems rather directed at workers in the field. I still list it here, since almost all topics we will address in the course are discussed there - with perhaps not the exception of chapter 6 on quantum dots. I will probably take some inspiration here for my discussion of persistent currents and decoherence from this book.

REVIEW ARTICLES : GENERAL

  1. C. Beenakker and H. van Houten, Quantum Transport in Semiconductor Nanostructures, in ``Solid State Physics'', Ehrenreich and Turnbull Eds., Academic Press (1991). Great review!
  2. D. Stone, Transport Theory of Mesoscopic Systems: Application to Ballistic Transport}, in ``Physique Quantique Mesoscopique'', Les Houches Lecture, Session LXI, Elsevier (1995). Great review article, it's one of my favorite (together at least with two other review articles by Doug Stone, and two of Carlo Beenakker, which makes them even, I guess ?).
  3. C. Beenakker, Rev. Mod. Phys. 69, 731 (1997). This review is focused on a specific analytical method applied to the problem of transport : Random Matrix Theory. I am not sure how usefull this is at the undergrad level. I may write down some summary of this theory, inspired by this review, in an Appendix of the lecture notes.

REVIEW ARTICLES : SPECIFIC TOPICS

  1. I. Aleiner, P. Brouwer, and L. Glazman, Phys. Rep. 358, 309 (2002). Quantum Dots. If you're looking for a theoretical discussion of quantum dots, this is the place to go!

ONLINE LECTURE NOTES AND OTHER INFOS

  1. Yuri M. Galperin, Quantum Transport . Lots of good things, requires perhaps more knowledge than most undergraduate students actually have.
  2. At the end of Carlo Beenakker's web page there is a list of tutorials, some of them are related to some topics we will address (Quantum Point Contact and Quantum Chaos)
  3. Ben Simmons has a great set of lectures on his web site
  4. Jonathan Bird made a cute set of powerpoint presentations for his class on Electron Transport in Nanostructures
  5. Leonid Glazman has looked into the general literature on mesoscopic physics. Here's what he's found
  6. Many other references can be found on the net advance of physics mesoscopic physics page
  7. Finally, Charlie Marcus has put quite a bit of infos, papers, review articles aso on his web page