Nonequilibrium mesoscopic transport: A genealogy
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2012
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Das, Mukunda P
Green, Frederick
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Institute of Physics Publishing
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Models of nonequilibrium quantum transport underpin all modern electronic devices, from the largest scales to the smallest. Past simplifications such as coarse graining and bulk self-averaging served well to understand electronic materials. Such particular notions become inapplicable at mesoscopic dimensions, edging towards the truly quantum regime. Nevertheless a unifying thread continues to run through transport physics, animating the design of small-scale electronic technology: microscopic conservation and nonequilibrium dissipation. These fundamentals are inherent in quantum transport and gain even greater and more explicit experimental meaning in the passage to atomic-sized devices. We review their genesis, their theoretical context, and their governing role in the electronic response of meso- and nanoscopic systems.
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Keywords: Coarse Graining; Electronic device; Electronic materials; Electronic technologies; Mesoscopic transport; Mesoscopics; Nanoscopic systems; Non equilibrium; Quantum regimes; Quantum transport; Transport physics; Physics; Quantum electronics; Superconducting
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Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
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