The Capri Spring School on Transport in Nanostructures is primarily intended for Ph.D. students and early-career postdocs. Over the course of a week, leading experts deliver several three- and four-hour lectures on transport in nanostructures, supplemented by a few shorter seminars by participants. Speakers are asked to give graduate-level presentations introducing state-of-the-art methods and techniques applied to quantum systems that are particularly relevant to nanoelectronics. Novel discoveries and technological advances in recent years allow the growth or fabrication of nanostructures, such as carbon nanotubes, atomic-size contacts, nanoscale Josephson junction circuits, or few-electron quantum dots, as well as hybrid devices and newly prepared materials such as graphene or topological insulators. In these systems, not only do familiar electrical-transport properties, like Ohm′s law, break down, but new transport effects also arise from the interplay of strong electron–electron interactions, disorder, reduced dimensionality, and quantum mechanical coherence. While fabrication and measurement techniques are often quite different, e.g., for chemically synthesized single-molecule bridges, on–chip Josephson junction noise detectors, or quantum wires grown in semiconductor heterostructures, the new quantum phenomena arising from electronic correlations, quantum coherence, disorder, and the influence of the electromagnetic environment are closely related in all nanostructures.
The Capri Spring School is an annual event taking place on the Island of Capri in the Bay of Naples (Italy). In this BOOKLET you can find information up to the 10th edition, including a full list of participants.
