Next week's seminar

[Cond.Matt. & Stat.Mech.Section]

SEMINAR on    Disorder and strong electron correlations

 

Thursday, 3 May -  11:30 a.m.

 

Luigi Stasi Seminar Room,  Leonardo Building - first floor

 

Massimiliano Di Ventra   ( University of California, San Diego )

 

"Fundamental aspects of transport in nanoscale systems and ultra-cold atoms"

 

 

Abstract

 

I will discuss some of the most basic questions in fermionic and bosonic transport, such as the conditions for the existence of a steady-state current, its uniqueness, the role of interactions and spin statistics, its entanglement entropy, etc.  This will lead me to introduce an alternative viewpoint to conduction - the micro-canonical formalism of transport - which is ideal to study the above issues [1]. I will point out the similarities and differences with the widely used Landauer formalism, and advance a series of predictions that can be verified by loading ultra-cold atoms into artificial optical lattices.

 

[1] M. Di Ventra, Electrical Transport in Nanoscale Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2008).