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Next student seminar :
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Experimental Internship - Undergraduate program
Master ICFP first year Internship
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November 14 - 18, 2022 :
All information about the program
Contact us - Student support and Graduate School office :
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Program Condensed matter physics = cours optionnel
Responsible : Gwendal Fève (PR Sorbonne University, LPENS)
Teachers : Gwendal Fève (PR Sorbonne University, LPENS), Jérôme Lesueur (PR ESPCI, LPEM), Matthieu Delbecq (MCF Sorbonne University, LPENS), Kris Van Houcke (MCF ENS, LPENS)
number ECTS : 6
Language of instruction : English
Evaluation : written exam 3h (1h30 x 2)
Description :
The main goal of this course is to present the different regimes of electronic transport in conductors and how quantum mechanical effects affect their resistance or conductance. The first part of the course will present the quasi-classical regime and it corrections related to electronic interferences in diffusive conductors as well as the quantization of the conductance of low dimensional ballistic conductors. Topological materials, where the quantization of the conductance can become insensitive to the local properties of the conductor will also be discussed. The second part of the course is devoted to superconductivity. After a brief introduction on superconductors, the microscopic BCS theory will be presented, and the electrodynamics properties of superconductors studied. Special attention will be devoted to quantum phase coherence aspects, such as the Josephson effect. In particular, transport properties through Andreev states in normal conductors coupled to superconductors will be explained in the spirit of the first part of the lecture. Topological superconductors and their specificities will be also discussed.
Next student seminar :
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Experimental Internship - Undergraduate program
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November 14 - 18, 2022 :
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Contact us - Student support and Graduate School office :
Tél : 01 44 32 35 60
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