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NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS

A PARTNER IN THE

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS

Department of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Advanced Studies, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, Canberra, ACT 0200  

RESEARCH WORKSHOP

NANOSTRUCTURES:

QUANTUM CONFINEMENTS

30 November - 9 December 1998

A fundamental understanding of the behaviour of materials is the key to the development of new materials and their applications. A wide variety of low-dimensional physical systems and nanostructures are currently of interest. Examples are:

• atomically thin layers (usually of electrons embedded on a semiconductor surface or interface, 2D electron gas)
• quantum devices (quantum dots and quantum wires)
• layered magnetic systems exhibiting giant and colossal magneto-resistance
• nanocrystals exhibiting nonlinear optical properties
• polarised hydrogen on He surface
• pancake vortices in high Tc superconductors
• atomic clusters and cluster-assembled materials (C-60)

Many quantum phenomena are associated with these systems, which have implications for future nanotechnology.

We plan to have a ten-day Workshop involving some overseas and Australian participants to discuss novel physics associated with some of the above topics. Intending participants are requested to return the Registration Form . Limited financial assistance is available for participation for those who cannot get support from their home institutions. The next circular with more detailed information will be sent to those who register for the Workshop.

For further queries please contact the Convenor, or the NCTP Secretary.

Dr Mukunda P. Das
Convenor,
Workshop on Nanostructures: Quantum Confinements
Tel: (02) 6249 3066
email: mpd105@rsphysse.anu.edu.au

Heli Jackson, Secretary
Department of Theoretical Physics, RSPhysSE
ANU ACT 0200
AUSTRALIA
Tel:(02) 6279 8123
email:Heli.Jackson@anu.edu.au
Fax:(02) 6249 4676

SPEAKERS AND TALK TITLES

1. B. Hu (Akron, USA)
Probing properties of two-dimensional electron gases by Coulomb drag

2. K. A. Chao (Univ Lund, Sweden)
Coulomb Blockade and Single Electronics: Physics and Applications

3. L. Reggiani(Univ Lecce, Italy)
MonteCarlo Investigation of Shot noise suppession in balistic and diffusive transport regimes

4. R. Haglund (Vanderbilt U., Nashville, USA)
Nonlinear optical properties(!)

5. J. Rose (Univ Iowa, Ames, USA)
Stabilized electron gases

6. A. Meyerovich (U. Rhode Island, USA)
Transport, Quantum Interference, and Localization in Ultrathin Systems with Corrugated Walls and Interfaces

7. J. Dobson (Griffith U)
Sharpening up a quantum well FIR resonance

8. F. Green (CSIRO, Sydney)
Noise in mesoscopic systems

9. M. Michalewicz (CSIRO, Melb)
Electronic properties of nanosystems

10. G. Milburn (UQld)
Quantum measurement and computation in strongly coupled quantum dots

11. D. Neilson (UNSW)
MIT in 2D

12. B. Sanders (Mqr U)
Asymmetric design of resonant tunnelling structures for improved performance

13. C. Savage (ANU)
BEC in alkalies

14. R. Stamps (UWA)
Magnetic multilayers

15. J. Thakur (UNSW)
Disorder, MIT and Superconducting Pairing in 2DEG Systems

16. C. Zhang (U Wollongong)
EM absorption in the THz regime in a double well system.

17. W. Xu (U Wollongong)
Collective excitations in 2D electron gases under intense tera-hertz radiation

18. Ross MacKenzie (UNSW)
Incoherent interlayer tunnelling

19. Jingbo Wang (UWA)
Quantum transport in Nanoelectronic devices

20. Paul Edwards (UC)
Aspects of Electronic Transport Noise in Nanostructures

21. Brad Dinte (Griffith)
Seamless vdW functionals

22. M.P. Das (ANU)
Bosonic condensation in confinement

23. Heidi Reinholz (UWA)
Dielectric function and electrical conductivity within a linear response theory.

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