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Lecture Notes

• Simple Crystallography
• Transport and Disorder
• Computational Physics

Research

• Transport via a quantum shuttle (with Andrew D Armour)
• Quantum interference and inelastic scattering in a model which-way device (with Andrew D Armour)
• Thermoelectric Properties of Disordered Systems ( with Rudolf Römer and Cristine Villagonzalo)
• Disorder and interactions on a 1D chain (with Jonathan M Carter)
• Quantum gears: a simple mechanical system in the quantum regime
• Transport via a quantum shuttle (with Andrew D Armour)
• The metal-insulator transition in disordered systems: a new approach to the critical behaviour (with Alex P Taylor)
• Behavior of the thermopower in amporphous materials at the metal-insulator transtion {with Cristine Villagonzalo, Rudolf A Römer and Michael Schreiber)
• Boundary conditions, the critical conductance distribution and one-parameter scaling (with Daniel Braun, Etienne Hofstetter and Gilles Montambaux)
• Critical exponents for the metal-insulator transition in disordered systems
• Localization Theory and Experiment (with Bernhard Kramer)
• Conductance and conductance fluctuations of narrow disordered quantum wires (with Konstantin Nikolic)
• Coherent tunnelling through two quantum dots with Coulomb interaction (with Peter Pals)
• Incoherent tunnelling through two quantum dots with Coulomb interaction (with Peter Pals)
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Hofstadter's Butterfly
When a periodic system is in a magnetic field the electronic spectrum is extremely complex showing a self-similar structure as a function of energy and magnetic field.   Click the thumbprint for a high resolution version.  N.B. The diagram is at a resolution which your viewer may not be able to cope with.

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