About the course - General
General
Course topics
Course topics
# Topic 1
Tunnel junctions, Johnson-Nyquist vs. shot nioise, Coulomb blockade, Single electron box and transistor, simple version of full counting statistics Lecture notes
2
Josephson junctions, Josephson qubits, macroscopic quantum tunnelling and coherence Lecture notes
3
Caldeira-Leggett Model (classically), Dissipative two-level system, Golden Rule, Derivation of (Bloch-Redfield, Lindblad) master equation. Lecture notes
4 Feynman-Vernon formalism, Keldysh formulation, Keldysh Green's functions, Derivation of quasiclassical Langevin equation. Lecture notes
5 Field-theoretical path integral, influence functional, AES action, quasi-classical equations of motion, Langevin equations, shot noise Lecture notes
6 AES action for Josephson junctions Lecture notes
7 Full counting statistics and P(E) theory Lecture notes
Course topics
Lecture, Tutorial and office hours
Lecture, Tutorial and office hours
Office hours
Name Day Hours Building/Room E-mail Prof. אלכסנדר שנירמן By appointment - 54 Room 313 alexander.shnirman@kit.edu Lecture/Tutorial
Group What? Name Day Hours Building/Room 1 Lecture Prof. אלכסנדר שנירמן Wednesday 10:00-13:00 building 32, room 207 Lecture, Tutorial and office hours
Course policy
Course policy
There will be 5 home excercises during the semester. All excercises are mandatory, and will count as 10% for the final grade.Final exam will be oral.Course policy
Exercises
Exercises
Exercises