PIRSA:12030067

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Fundamental Aspects of Transport in Condensed Matter and Atomic Physics

Di Ventra, M. (2012). Fundamental Aspects of Transport in Condensed Matter and Atomic Physics. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/12030067

Di Ventra, Massimiliano. Fundamental Aspects of Transport in Condensed Matter and Atomic Physics. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Mar. 30, 2012, https://pirsa.org/12030067 

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            author = {Di Ventra, Massimiliano},
            keywords = {Quantum Matter},
            language = {en},
            title = {Fundamental Aspects of Transport in Condensed Matter and Atomic Physics},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2012},
            month = {mar},
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Massimiliano Di Ventra University of California, San Diego

Talk numberPIRSA:12030067
DOI10.48660/12030067
Source RepositoryPIRSA
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

I will discuss some of the most basic questions in fermionic and bosonic transport, such as the conditions for the existence of a steady-state current, its uniqueness, the role of interactions and spin statistics, its entanglement entropy, etc. This will lead me to introduce an alternative viewpoint to conduction - the micro-canonical formalism of transport - which is ideal to study the above issues [1]. I will point out the similarities and differences with the widely used Landauer formalism, and advance a series of predictions that can be verified by loading ultra-cold atoms into artificial optical lattices.

[1] M. Di Ventra, Electrical Transport in Nanoscale Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2008).