1. Fundamentals of band structure
   • Free electron gas
   • Bloch theorem
2. Boltzmann transport equation
   • motion in constant E field → Drude result
   • diffusion
   • phonon scattering mechanism
3. Quantum transport
   • elastic vs inelastic scattering
   • 1d wire no scattering (nano module?)
   • Landauer formalism
4. Quantum to classical crossover
   • Transmission probabilities
   • Resonant tunneling
   • Incoherent scattering
   • Localization
5. Transport in magnetic field - topological phenomena
   • Vector potential and electron phase
   • Examples: AB effect & QHE
6. Tunneling
   • WKB approx & STM
   • Fermi golden rule
   • Coulomb blockade (class project?)
7. Superconductivity
   • Meissner effect, flux quantization, length scales
   • BCS
   • HTS

Other?

• Metal-Insulator transition
• Difference between Mott insulator and Anderson localization
• Thomas-Fermi screening
• Other oscillatory B-field effects (Shubnikov-de Haas, de Haas-van Alphen, etc)
• Coulomb blockade

• Janet's PH575 class and see the “Links” page there.
• Cees Harmans' mesoscopic physics notes

• Simulations from Cornell University. Drude model shows motion of 8 electrons in crossed E and B fields. Other useful ones are Bloch, Peierls, Ziman
• Good free electron summary.

• Dispersion relations and animations of phonon modes in several different crystals. Also surface phonons.
• http://wolf.ifj.edu.pl/phonon/animation/, animations of phonon modes
• http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/phet normal-modes, simulation of vibrational normal modes from PHET project
• Java applet with interactive features demonstrating acoustic and optic phonon modes of diatomic chain (requires java).

• Carbon Nanotube Quantum Resistors http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.139.3328&rep=rep1&type=pdf
• I found this discussion of two conducting channels in carbon nanotubes helpful. -Dan
• Localization in SWCNT transport

• W-F law (N.P. Ong, Princeton)

• Chapter 8 of our Kittel text has the very basics you need to know.
• Nice compilation of semiconductor properties from the Ioffe Institute in Russia. m_eff, band gaps, for Si, GaAs and others.
• For II-VI (and other) semiconductors, see the page by D. W. Palmer

• Physics Today article on AB effect in normal metal
• Feynman on AB effect

• Mott variable range hopping

• Schwarzchild PT 1985 Nobel article
• Avron PT 2003 - Physics Today Article on the QHE

Free access (usually) from OSU domain. If not in OSU domain, access from the OSU Library page. If OSU does not subscribe, then request article via inter-library loan.

• Physical Review X
• Science
• Nature
• Nature Physics
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
• Physical Review Letters
• Nano Letters
• Applied Physics Letters