Quantum Transport in Mesoscopic Systems
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Quantum Information".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2019) | Viewed by 72837
Special Issue Editors
Interests: quantum transport; quantum thermodynamics; thermoelectrics; spintronics; strongly correlated systems; language variation and change
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mesoscopic physics has now become a well-established, mature field. The techniques developed in the 1980s and 1990s to understand electronic transport in small conductors form a standard toolbox that is available for theoreticians and experimentalists alike. Importantly, the electrical properties of mesoscopic conductors happen to be governed directly by the quantum properties of carriers, hence the term “quantum transport”. However, the advent of new materials with exotic properties poses serious challenges for the understanding of novel phenomena using standard formalisms. Further, today’s possibility of designing different setups and measurement schemes offers the opportunity of investigating transport effects lying at the interface between condensed matter, thermodynamics, and quantum information. This issue attempts to review recent trends in quantum transport and mesoscopics with a rich variety of topics: nanoscale heat and dissipation, coherent single-electronics, semiconductor spintronics, topological quantum matter, quantum Hall effects, graphene structures, strongly interacting systems, noise and fluctuations, etc.
Dr. David Sánchez
Dr. Michael Moskalets
Guest Editors
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