Marie-Curie Excellence Team
Nanoelectrophotonics

waves in disordered media

• multiple scattering
• dynamics
• localization
• coherent backscattering
• amplification and absorption
• mesoscopic quantum optics
• chaotic-cavity lasers

noise in mesoscopic systems

• shot noise
• counting statistics
• interplay of electrons and photons
• relation of quantum mechanical, semiclassical, quasiclassical, and stochastic methods

open systems

• scattering
• transport
• dissipation and decoherence
• non-hermitian operators

interactions in mesoscopic systems

• Coulomb blockade, chaos and interaction, two-level systems

quantum computing

• influence of nonlinear dynamics (chaos)
• error correction
• mesoscopic implementations

mesoscopic superconductivity

• proximity effect
• transport (Josephson effect)
• non-equilibrium phenomena
• density of states
• hybrid geometries

semiclassics of generic systems with a mixed phase space

• trace formulas and semiclassical approximations
• universal singular fluctuations
• transport, shot noise, counting statistics
• dynamical probes as return times and Andreev reflection