Reading Class  (Linke / Taylor)
 

This site lists reading material used in the Winter 2002 Reading Class for the Taylor and Linke group at the University of Oregon.

Course outline

• Ratchets and Brownian Motors
• Fractals and Perception
• Mesoscopic Electronic Systems
• Molecular Motors

15 January 2002

• R. Dean Astumian, "Thermodynamics and Kinetics of a Brownian Motor", Science 276, pp 917-922 (1997)
• M. Brooks, "Quantum Clockworks", New Scientist, 22 January 2000, pp 28- 31.
• R. Dean Astumian, "Making molecules into motors", Scientific American, August 2001, pp 57 - 64

22 January 2002

• P. Reimann, "Brownian motors: noisy transport far from equilibrium", cond-mat/0010237, Chapters 1-3
• Parrondo and Jimenez, "Energetics of Brownian Motors: A Review", to appear in Appl. Phys. A

29 January 2002

• Philip Ball, "Branches" chapter in the book "Nature's fromation of Patterns", Oxford Univ. Press, 1999.

• Tim Palmer, "A weather eye on unpredictability" , The New Scientist Guide to Chaos, Ed. Nina Hall, Penguin 1991.

• Benoit Mandelbrot,  "Fractals - a geometry of nature", The New Scientist Guide to Chaos, Ed. Nina Hall, Penguin 1991.

• Michael Berry,  "Quantum Physics on the Edge of Chaos", The New Scientist Guide to Chaos, Ed. Nina Hall, Penguin 1991.

5 February 2002

• T.E. Humphrey et al., "Pumping Heat with Quantum Ratchets", Physica E 11/2-3, 281 (2001)
• T.E. Humphrey et al., "Reversible Quantum Heat Engines", cond-mat/0201087

12 February 2002

• Supriyo Datta, "Electronic Transport in Mesoscopic Semiconductors", Chapter 1 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997)

19 February 2002

• Supriyo Datta, "Electronic Transport in Mesoscopic Semiconductors", Chapter 2 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997)

26 February 2002

• R P Taylor, "The role of surface gate technology for AlGaAs/GaAs nanostructures", Nanotechnology 5 183 (1994)
• E Linfield and D Ritchie, "Patterns below the surface", Physics World, July 1997, p37.
• J. Gimzewski, "Molecules, nanophysics and nanoelectronics", Physics World, June 1998, p 29
• C Dekker, "Carbon Nanotubes as Molecular Quantum Wires, Physics Today, May 1999, p 22

5 March 2002

• Ronald Vale and Ronald Milligan, "The Way Things Move: Looking under the Hood of Molecular Motor Proteins", Science 288, 88 (2000).
• A.D. Mehta et al., "Single-Molecule Biomechanics with Optical Methods", Science 283, 1689 (1999)