Supporting material - articles

On postmodern quantum mechanics .pdf format.
Early review on semiclassics in quantum chaos (chaology ?) by Berry and Mount, including a discussion of the Thomas-Fermi/Weyl term in the DoS .pdf format.
Argamn, Imry and Smilansky's semiclassical treatment of the form factor and persistent currents in diffusive systems - good qualitative discussion of how to derive semiclassical sum rules (a la Hannay-Ozorio de Almeida) .pdf format.
Twentieth century semiclassics - orbital effects aso .pdf format.
Semiclassical theory of weak localization .pdf format.
Semiclassical theory of shot-noise .pdf format.
Semiclassical approach to dephasing .pdf format.

Class presentations

Introduction .pdf format.
Some slides on chaos and the breakdown of the old quantum mechanics .pdf format.
Some slides on numerical implementations of Gutzwiller's trace formula, and how periodic orbits affect certain quantum eigenstates (a.k.a. scars) .pdf format.

Some Infos

General infos on mesoscopic physics (mostly a list of references) are given here

Lecture Notes

.pdf file with lecture notes




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