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

• 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 …

This Brief review article on 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.

Current draft of the paper (Still pretty rough. Will be updated Sunday night): topological_insulators_rd.pdf

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.

pommerenck_superconductivity.pdf

science-2015-clery-369-71.pdf

photons and electron transport

hopping conductivty in organics (and other)

Here is my powerpoint. I fixed a few things and added some experimental current values and mobilities.

organicstransport.pdf

Majorana fermions