Course: UFV/TRANS/18, Summer term 2025/2026

Timetable:
Lectures on Thursday 12:35 – 14:05, Room: KNKTFA
Exercises on Thursday 14:15 – 15:45 (N.T.), Room: KNKTFA (Timon Moško)

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Requirements for successful completion of the course:

HOMEWORK: assignments must be submitted before the start of the examination period, and no later than two weeks after the last exercise session, unless serious and documented objective reasons are approved by the instructor (e.g., medical or officially confirmed circumstances). Solutions must be handwritten and submitted in paper form. A minimum of 60% of the solutions must be correct in order to meet the course requirements. Failure to submit the homework on time constitutes failure to meet the necessary condition for admission to the exam.

EXAM: will consists of two parts: Written part – solving practical problems related to the course content. Oral/theoretical part – explanation and justification of the obtained solutions, and answers to questions covering the lecture material. A list of theoretical questions will be published at the beginning of the examination period. Successful completion of both parts is required to pass the exam.

 

Outline:

  • Phenomenological approach
  • Electron transport in solids
  • DC conductivity in metals, Drude theory
  • Electron gas, electric, and heat currents
  • Diffusive transport
  • Transport Boltzmann equation
  • Linear response
  • Electronic transport in mesoscopic systems
  • Ballistic transport
  • Resistance of ballistic conductor
  • Landauer formula and its applications
  • Quantum Hall effects
  • Tunneling and Coulomb blockade
  • Quantum dots, Single molecule transport, STEM basics
  • Spin-polarized transport
  • Anomalous Hall effect, Berry curvature

Literature:

  1. K. Hirose, N. Kobayashi, Quantum Transport Calculations for Nanosystems, Pan Stanford Publishing, 2014
  2. D. K. Ferry, An Introduction to Quantum Transport in Semiconductors, Pan Stanford Publishing, 2018
  3. M. Galperin, Quantum Transport, Lecture Notes 1998
  4. S. Datta, Electronic Transport in Mesoscopic Systems, Cambridge University Press, 1995
  5. T. Heinzel, Mesoscopic Electronics in Solid State Nanostructures, Wiley-VCH 2003
  6. P. Středa, Elektronový transport v kvantových systémech, Skripta
  7. N. W. Ashcroft, N. D. Mermin, Solid State Physics, Harcourt College Publisher 1976
  8. M. P. Marder, Condensed Matter Physics, Wiley, 2010
  9. J. B. Ketterson, The Physics of Solids, Oxford University Pres,s 2016
  10. J. Sólyom, Fundamentals of the Physics of Solids, Volume 2 – Electronic Properties, Springer 2009

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