Nanophysics: Coherence and Transport

The developments of nanofabrication in the past years have enabled the design of electronic systems that exhibit spectacular signatures of quantum coherence at very low temperature. Experimental investigations of these nanocircuits gave rise to numerous initially unexpected (and at times theoretically unresolved) surprises. Basic concepts and analytical tools needed to understand this new physics are presented in a series of theoretical fundamental courses, in parallel with more phenomenological ones where physics is discussed in a less formal way and illustrated by many experiments.