دانلود کتاب Nanoscale Quantum Materials: Musings on the Ultra-Small World

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Cover\nHalf Title\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nPreface\nAcknowledgments\n1. Introduction: From giants to dwarfs\n2. Down to low dimensions\n 2.1. The essential toolkit: Quantum mechanics\n 2.2. Two-dimensional electron gas\n 2.3. Novel phenomena in flatland: Nobels galore\n 2.3.1. Quantum Hall effect\n 2.3.2. A new standard for resistance calibration\n 2.3.3. Quantum Hall effect – now with fractions\n 2.4. Laughlin’s eponymous wave function\n 2.4.1. The (lowest energy) ground state\n 2.5. Incompressible liquid and the charged excitations\n 2.6. The unusual statistics\n 2.7. Spin flip and the tilted magnetic field\n 2.8. Anatomy of the Laughlin state\n 2.9. Laughlin state from the East\n3. Quantum dots: In the abyss of no dimensions\n 3.1. Landau versus Fock\n 3.2. A tale of artificial atoms\n 3.3. Portrait of a harmonic oscillator\n 3.4. Magic number ground states\n 3.5. Rashba spin-orbit coupling\n 3.6. Spin textures and topological charge\n 3.7. Anisotropic quantum dots\n 3.8. Secret affairs and a single photon\n 3.8.1. Single-photon detectors\n 3.8.2. Single-photon source\n 3.9. Cascading and burning bright\n 3.9.1. Molecular fingerprinting\n 3.9.2. Quantum cascade laser\n 3.9.3. QCL in a magnetic field\n 3.9.4. QCL with quantum dots\n4. Quantum rings: Dynamic unity of polar opposites\n 4.1. Tireless electron running around in circles\n 4.2. Interacting electrons in a few-electron quantum ring\n 4.3. Optical spectroscopy\n 4.4. Role of electron spin\n 4.5. Quantum ring complexes\n 4.6. Rashba spin-orbit coupling revisited\n 4.7. Quantum ring and topological charge\n 4.8. Rings in novel systems\n 4.9. Isotropic or anisotropic?\n 4.10. Device applications of the quantum rings\n5. Graphene: Carbon and its nets\n 5.1. A brief history of graphene\n 5.1.1. Major breakthroughs in graphene research\n 5.1.2. Isolating graphene: Sellotape versus the Scotch tape\n 5.2. Electrons behaving differently\n 5.3. Quantum Hall effects in graphene\n 5.4. Bilayer graphene\n 5.4.1. Bilayer graphene Landau levels\n 5.4.2. Novel fractional quantum Hall effects\n 5.4.3. Bilayer graphene in a tilted magnetic field\n 5.4.4. Marvels of interacting electrons in graphene\n 5.5. Graphene nanostructures\n 5.5.1. Quantum dots\n 5.5.2. Quantum rings\n 5.6. Molecular adsorption on graphene\n 5.7. Graphene’s extended family\n 5.8. Requiem for the (very expensive) dreams\n6. Some remarkable episodes in the nanoscale\n 6.1. Fractal butterflies\n 6.1.1. Semiconductor systems: Strong field limit\n 6.1.2. Butterflies in monolayer graphene\n 6.1.3. Square lattice periodic structure\n 6.1.4. Moiré structure\n 6.1.5. Butterflies in bilayer graphene\n 6.1.6. Butterflies and interacting electrons\n 6.1.7. The Cantor set\n 6.1.8. The ten-martini challenge\n 6.2. Maxwell’s demon in the nanoworld\n 6.2.1. A sorting demon – the anti-thermodynamic agent\n 6.2.2. Anthropomorphism of the benevolent demon\n 6.2.3. Demon in quantum dots\n 6.2.4. Spin demons in quantum rings\n 6.3. Nanoscale physics of DNA\n 6.3.1. DNA – Nature’s nanoscale code-script\n 6.3.2. DNA electronics\n 6.3.3. Humidity assisted conduction\n 6.3.4. Mismatched base pairs: Electrical properties\n7. Epilogue and the road ahead\nA. Ten-martini proof\nIndex