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Choose a topic that you would like to learn more about. Write a paper and prepare a 15?30?-minute presentation. Include the following elements:
- A through review of the classic texts, with a tutorial approach in mind
- The most recent research literature on the topic or related topics (we can discuss this more)
- Numbers that give the reader an idea of the scale of the quantities you discuss
- A good bibliography that includes review and tutorial articles and research articles
- Uniqueness - no topic should overlap that of another class member. You will decide jointly about topics - all of you have to be interested in the others' topics
- Length: no maximum. 10-page minimum?
- Presentation: 15?30? minutes plus 5 minutes for questions
- Optional: a tentative homework problem and solution that would be good for future years
Ideas
- Topological insulators
- Metal-insulator transitions
- Coulomb blockade
- FQHE
- nanoscale thermal transport
- Majorana fermions
- High temperature superconductivity
- Tunneling – semiconductor, josephson,
- Temp dependence of resistivity in semiconductors
- Universal Conductance Fluctuations
- Many other topics …
People
Daniel
This overview of topological insulators is pretty quick to read. Robert, you might be interested in the discussion on the last page about future work in the field with topological insulators and majorana fermions.
Jordan
high temperature superconductors
Theory of High Temperature Superconductivity By S. Fujita, S. Godoy
Here is a link to a draft of the paper for this course. Also, some interesting reading on High Temperature Superconductivity and Plasma Physics.
Kyle
photons and electron transport
Nicole
hopping conductivty in organics (and other)
Robert
Majorana fermions
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