Heterogeneity and Disorder: Contributions of Rolf Landauer
Materials Science
2015-05-14 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
History and Philosophy of Physics
Abstract
Rolf Landauer made important contributions to many branches of science. Within the broad area of transport in disordered media, he wrote seminal papers on electrical conduction in macroscopically inhomogeneous materials, as well as fundamental analyses of electron transport in quantum mechanical systems with disorder on the atomic scale. We review here some of these contributions. We also briefly describe some main events in his personal and scientific life.
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@article{arxiv.0910.0993,
title = {Heterogeneity and Disorder: Contributions of Rolf Landauer},
author = {Bertrand I. Halperin and David J. Bergman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.0993},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
10 pages, 3 figures; presented on the occasion when Rolf Landauer was awarded, posthumously, the inaugural ETOPIM Medal at the ETOPIM 8 Conference, which took place during 7--12 June, 2009 in Rethymnon, Crete