Quench Dynamics in Interacting and Superconducting Nanojunctions

Effects of many-body interactions and superconducting correlations have becomecentral questions in the quantum transport community. While most previous worksinvestigating current fluctuations in nanodevices have been restricted to thestationary regime, Seoane's thesis extends these studies to the time domain. Itprovides relevant information about the time onset of electronic correlationsmediated by interactions and superconductivity. This knowledge is essential for thedevelopment of fast electronic devices, as well as novel applications requiring fastmanipulations, such as quantum information processing. In addition, the thesisestablishes contact with issues of broad current interest such as non-equilibrium quantum phase transitions.