| speaker: | Leonid Glazman |
| time: | Th. 03.04.03, 9:00 - 10:00 |
The mysterious increase of the resistance of some metals at low temperatures was observed back in 1930s and explained in the 1960s by Jun Kondo, who was the first theorist to uncover the peculiarities of the scattering of the conduction electrons by localized magnetic moments. Attention to this low-temperature anomaly, the Kondo effect, persisted since then, as it provides clues for understanding a wide variety of materials where the interaction between electrons is particularly strong. Interest in the Kondo effect has peaked recently since methods rooted in nanotechnology gave experimentalists an unprecedented control over the Kondo systems. This talk reviews the theory of Kondo effect in electron transport through small (zero-dimensional) conductors -- quantum dots.