Professor Henning Schomerus

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I am interested to uncover phenomena related to the dynamics of electrons and photons in small quantum systems.

Below you find a breakdown of fields of activity in terms of different categories; see publications for details and results.

systems

photonic systems

  • dielectric microresonators
  • disordered waveguides

graphene

  • disorder and transport
  • contacts and interfaces
  • confinement mechanisms
  • adsorbate functionalization and sensoring
  • pseudospintronics

mesoscopic systems

  • quantum dots
  • quantum wires
  • mesoscopic superconductors
  • implementations of quantum information processors

quantum and atom optical systems

  • mesoscopic light emitters
  • atoms in pulsed optical fields
  • atoms in strong fields (NSDI, ATI, HHG)
  • atomic and molecular condensates

quantum dynamical systems

  • chaotic billiards
  • kicked rotators
  • kicked tops
  • Floquet systems

concepts

quantum coherent transport

  • weak localization
  • sample-to-sample fluctuations
  • Anderson localization
  • coherent backscattering
  • proximity effect
  • Josephson effect
  • quantum decay

quantum noise

  • shot noise
  • full counting statistics
  • quantum limited noise
  • nonmarkovian and nonergodic noise

interactions

  • entanglement and correlations
  • dissipation and decoherence
  • amplification and lasing
  • Coulomb blockade

quantum-to-classical correspondence

  • mixed phase space
  • bifurcations
  • Ehrenfest time
  • scarring
  • fractal Weyl law
  • Goos-Hänchen shift

methods

scattering theory

  • Landauer-Büttiker formalism
  • Green's function methods
  • kinetic theory
  • non-hermitian operators

statistical approaches

  • random matrices
  • large deviation statistics
  • fluctuation theorems
  • multifractality
  • nonergodicity
  • universal singular fluctuations

semiclassics

  • uniform approximations
  • asymptotic boundary layer method
  • phase-space representations

many-body and field theory

  • T matrix and vertex functions
  • Master equations
  • nonlinear sigma model
  • Keldysh techniques
  • path integrals

numerics

  • recursive Green's functions and decimation
  • exact diagonalization and propagation
  • quantum equations of motion