Ben-Gurion University
Faculty of Natural Science
Department of Physics


German Israeli Research Program on
Quantum Electronics in Low Dimensions
Coordinated by K. v. Klitzing (Stuttgart) and Y. Meir (BGU)
Administered by the German Ministry of Science

the Second Annual Workshop
With the participation of Professor K. v. Klitzing, 1985 Nobel Laureate in Physics
November 25-26 1999, Paradise Hotel, Beer Sheva

Participating Institutes: Ben-Gurion University, Weizmann Institute, The Technion, Max Planck Institute at Stuttgart, University of Karlsruhe, University of Hannover.


Schedule (detailed program below):

Wednesday November 24

17:00 - Check in at Hotel Paradise, Beer Sheva
20:00 - Get together party (Arava Hall). Greetings by the Rectort of the Ben Gurion University, professor Nachum Finger.

Thursday November 25

09:30-09:45 Opening and greetings by
Professor Miriam Cohen - Dean of the Faculty of Natural Science
Professor Amnon Moalem - Head of the Physics Department,

10:00-18:00 - Lectures.

20:00 - Conference Dinner with the President of Ben-Gurion University Professor Avishay Braverman.

Friday November 26

09:00-16:00 - Lectures

16:30 -23:00 - Excursion including dinner and moonlight hike


Partcipants and tentative speakers (detailed program below):

J. Smet, J. Weiss, W. Dietche (Max Planck Institute - Stuttgart)
R. Haug (Hannover)
H. Schoeller, A. Zaikin, J. v. Delft (Karlsruhe)
U. Sivan, A. Auerbach, B. Shapiro (Technion)
A. Stern, A. Finkelstein (Weizmann Institute)
Y. Meir, B. Horovitz Y. Avishai, A. Golub, S. Gredeskul (Ben Gurion University)


For further information contact Y. Avishai, Tel: 972-7-6461763, fax 972-7-6472904


Program

Wednesday Nov. 24, 1999

17:00 Check in at Hotel Paradise, Beer Sheva

20:15 - Get together party (Arava Hall). Greetings by the Rector of the Ben Gurion University, Professor Nachum Finger

Thursday Nov. 25, 1999 (Timna Hall)

09:30-09:45 - Opening and Greetings by:
Prof. Miriam Cohen - Dean of the Faculty of Natural Science
Prof. Amnon Moalem - Head of the Physics Department

Morning Session 09:45-13:30 (Chairman Y. Avishai, Timna Hall)
Quantum Dots and Dephasing

09:45-10:10 J. Schmid (Stuttgart) Experiments to Kondo Physics in Quantum Dots
10:10-10:35 Boris Shapiro (Technion) Phase breaking in the electronic conduction: a simple model
10:35-11:00 U. Wilhelm (Stuttgart) Experiments on Coupled Quantum Dots
11:00-11:25 I. Hapke-Wurst (Hannover) Magnetic field induced singularities in tunneling through InAs quantum dots

--------------11:30-12:00 Coffee Break--------------

12:00-12:25 J. Goeres (Stuttgart) Phase coherent tranport in an antidot-geometry.
12:25-12:50 H. Schoeller (Karlsruhe) Kondo-effect in multi-level dots
12:50-13:15 Jan von Delft (Karlsruhe) Transmission Phase Shift of a Quantum Dot with KondoCorrelations

-------------13:15-14:45 Lunch (Mirage Hall)----------------------

Afternoon Session 15:00-18:30 (Chairman J. Smet, Timna Hall)
The Quantum Hall Effect and Layered Systems

15:00-15:25 S. Kraus (Stuttgart) Drag between two 2DEGs at odd integer filling factors
15:25-15:50 A. Auerbach (Technion) Delocalization transition in quantum hall constrictions
15:50-16:15 S. Lok (Stuttgart) Mesoscopic Magnetism
16:15-16:50 A. Stern (Weizmann) dissipationless transport in low density two dimensional systems

-------------16:50-17:10 - Coffe Break--------------

17:10-17:35 O. Pros (Technion) The compressibility of strongly correlated 2D fermions-theory
17:35-18:00 B. Horovitz (BGU) Disorder induced transition in Layered Coloumb gases
18:00-18:25 U. Zeitler (Hannover) Phononabsorption in the QHE

20:00 Conference Dinner - (Negev Hall)
with the president of BGU professor Avishay Braverman

Friday November 26 1999

Morning Session 08:45 - 12:15 (Chairman R. Haug, Timna Hall)
The Metal Insulator Transition in Two Dimensions

08:45-09:10 - M. Pohlt (Stuttgart): preparation and properties of closely spaced electron hole layers
09:10-09:35 - Y. Yaish (Technion) A critical view of recent claims to MIT in 2DHG
09:35-10:00 - Y. Meir (BGU) Metal Insulator Transitions in two dimensions.
10:00-10:25 - W. Dietsche: Ballistic phonon transmission across twist-bonded interfaces

------------10:30-10:50 - Coffe Break--------------

10:50-11:15 - T. Schmidt (Hannover) Current-induced local oxidation of metal films: Mechanism and quantum size effect
11:15-11:40 - P. Koenig (Hannover) Spin effects in the local density of states of GaAs
11:40-12:20 - U. Sivan (Technion) Condensation of positively charged particles on DNA

------------12:20-13:30 Lunch (Mirage Hall)---------------------

Afternoon Session 13:45 - 16:00 (Chairman W. Dietsche, Timna Hall)
Superconductivity

13:45-14:10 A. Finkelstein (Weizmann) Suppression of Tc in superconducting wires.
14:10-14:35 A. Zaikin (Karlsruhe) Superconductivity and Fluctuations in One Dimension: a New Quantum Phase Transition
14:35-15:00 A. Golub (BGU) Quantum dot between two unconventional superconductor

------------15:00-15:15 Coffee Break-------------

15:15-15:40 S. Gredeskul (BGU) Magnetic properties of superconductors with columnar deffects.
15:40-16:00 A. Shnirman (Karlsruhe) Impurities in d-wave superconductors
16:00- Closing Remarks

-----------16:30 - 23:00 Excuesion and Dinner--------