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Contents<br />

Contents i<br />

Introduction 1<br />

I Experimental Motivation 5<br />

1 Kondo Effect 7<br />

1.1 Kondo Effect in Metals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />

1.2 Kondo Effect in Quantum Dots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />

2 Coherent Control of Single Spins 13<br />

2.1 Quantum Dots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />

2.2 Color Centers in Diamond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />

3 Molecular Electronics 19<br />

3.1 C60-Molecule Quantum Dots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />

3.2 Single Molecule Magnets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22<br />

II <strong>Numerical</strong> <strong>Renormalization</strong> <strong>Group</strong> 25<br />

4 Fermionic Baths 27<br />

4.1 Reducing <strong>to</strong> One Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28<br />

4.2 Logarithmic Discretization of Conduction Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28<br />

4.3 Mapping the Hamil<strong>to</strong>nian on a Semi-infinite Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29<br />

4.4 Iterative Diagonalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />

5 Bosonic Baths 37<br />

5.1 Star Hamil<strong>to</strong>nian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38<br />

5.2 Chain Hamil<strong>to</strong>nian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41<br />

6 Density Matrix <strong>Numerical</strong> <strong>Renormalization</strong> <strong>Group</strong> 43<br />

6.1 Energy Scale Separation for Dynamical Quantities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43<br />

6.2 Reduced Density Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45<br />

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