Preface Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 1.1 Nanostructures: the impact 1.2 Mesoscopic observables in nanostructures 1.3 Space and time scales 1.4 Nanostructures and nanodevices 1.5 An introduction to the subsequent chapters 1.6 What is omitted 2 Quantum confined systems 2.1 Nanostructure materials 2.2 Quantization in heterojunction systems 2.3 Lateral confinement: quantum wires and quantum dots 2.4 Electronic states in quantum wires and dots 2.5 Magnetic field effects in quantum confined systems 2.6 Screening and collective excitations in low-dimensional systems 2.7 Homogeneous transport in low-dimensional systems 3 Transmission in nanostructures 3.1 Tunneling in planar barrier structures 3.2 Current in resonant tunneling diodes 3.3 Landauer formula 3.4 The multi-channel case 3.5 Transport in quantum waveguide structures 4 The quantum Hall effects 4.1 The integer quantum Hall effect in two-dimensional electron systems 4.2 Edge-state propagation in nanostructures 4.3 The fractional quantum Hall effect 4.4 The many-body picture 5 Ballistic transport in quantum wires 5.1 Conductance quantization in quantum point contacts 5.2 Non-integer conductance quantization in quantum point contacts 5.3 Some ballistic device concepts 6 Quantum dots 6.1 Fundamentals of single-electron tunneling 6.2 Single-electron tunneling in semiconductor quantum dots 6.3 Coupled quantum dots as artificial molecules 6.4 Quantum interference due to spatial wave function coherence in quantum dots 7 Weakly disordered systems 7.1 Disordered semiconductors 7.2 Conductivity 7.3 Weak localization 7.4 Universal conductance fluctuations 7.5 Green's functions in disordered materials 8 Temperature decay of fluctuations 8.1 Temperature decay of coherence 8.2 The role of temperature on the fluctuations 8.3 Electron-electron interaction effects
8.4 Conductivity 9 Nonequilibrium transport and nanodevices 9.1 Nonequilibrium transport in mesoscopic structures 9.2 Semiconductor nanodevices in the real world 9.3 Quantum simulations via the scattering matrix 9.4 Real-time Green's functions Index
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