Peter Silvestrov
Physics Department and Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Research Interests: Mesoscopic physics; graphene; topological insulators.
June 1 - August 31, 2012
Organizer: Amnon Aharony (Ben-Gurion University)
Molecular electronics, one of the major fields in nanoscience, studies electronic devices based on single molecules, and on molecular networks connected to other electronic components. Its potential applications include sensors, displays, smart materials, molecular motors, logic and memory devices, molecular scale transistors and energy transduction devices. Besides being the next step in device miniaturization, molecules are able to bind to one another, recognize each other, assemble into larger structures, and exhibit dynamical stereochemistry. In addition to its technological potential, molecular electronics has raised many new fundamental questions, e.g. concerning the interactions of molecular systems with their environment and their functioning far from equilibrium. Also, fluctuations and noise constitute an important part of the physics of such microscopic systems. At the moment there already exist several ingenious experimental realizations of transport through molecular bridges. There also exist a variety of different theoretical tools (both in chemistry and in physics) to attack the above important issues. This interdisciplinary workshop will bring together physicists and chemists, experimentalists and theoreticians, senior and young scientists, aiming to understand existing experiments, to propose new experiments (possibly combining various experimental tools) and new technological devices, using combinations of various theoretical and experimental methods.
Physics Department and Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Research Interests: Mesoscopic physics; graphene; topological insulators.
Department of Chemical Physics
School of Chemistry
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
UCLA, USA
Research Interests: Nanopolaritonics; spintronics; density functional theory.
We are interested in a theoretical understanding of nanoscale devices capable of controlling:
Department of Condensed Matter Physics
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
My research is centered on mesoscopic and disordered systems.
Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Research Interests: Quantum measurement and decoherence; zeno effect; quantum transport in mesoscopic and molecular systems; multi-dimensional tunneling; deep inelastic scattering.
Institute of Nanotechnology and Institut für Theorie der Kondensierten Materie
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Research Interests: Computational condensed matter theories of weakly correlated systems.
Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University
Research Interests: superconductivity; electronic interactions with vibrations; magnetic properties of transition-metal oxides; mesoscopic systems.
Department of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Science
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Research Interests: Electronic structure of molecules, clusters and nanoclusters. Solar cells based on nanoclusters, organic molecules and nanotubes.
Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University
Research Interests: nanophysics; quantum electronic properties; magentism; phase transitions; theoretical physics of nanoscopic systems: small quantum devices, spin filters, quantum pumping, quantum interference.