Mesoscopic Electron Transport

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction to Mesoscopic Electron Transport

   • Leo P. Kouwenhoven, Gerd Schön, Lydia L. Sohn

   Pages 1-44

3. Geometric Phases in Mesoscopic Systems — From the Aharonov-Bohm Effect to Berry Phases

   • Ady Stern

   Pages 45-81

4. Delocalization, Inelastic Scattering and Transport due to Interactions

   • Yoseph Imry

   Pages 83-103

5. Electron Transport in Quantum Dots

   • Leo P. Kouwenhoven, Charles M. Marcus, Paul L. McEuen, Seigo Tarucha, Robert M. Westervelt, Ned S. Wingreen

   Pages 105-214

6. Magnetotunneling Spectroscopy: Studying Self-Organized Quantum Dots and Quantum Chaology

   • L. Eaves

   Pages 215-224

7. Shot Noise in Mesoscopic Systems

   • M. J. M. de Jong, C. W. J. Beenakker

   Pages 225-258

8. Admittance and Nonlinear Transport in Quantum Wires, Point Contacts, and Resonant Tunneling Barriers

   • M. Büttiker, T. Christen

   Pages 259-289

9. Transport Theory of Interacting Quantum Dots

   • H. Schoeller

   Pages 291-330

10. Transport in a One-Dimensional Luttinger Liquid

    • Matthew P. A. Fisher, Leonid I. Glazman

    Pages 331-373

11. The Proximity Effect in Mesoscopic Diffusive Conductors

    • D. Estève, H. Pothier, S. Guéron, Norman O. Birge, M. H. Devoret

    Pages 375-406

12. Mesoscopic Effects in Superconductivity

    • Rosario Fazio, Gerd Schön

    Pages 407-446

13. Ultrasmall Superconductors

    • D. C. Ralph, C. T. Black, J. M. Hergenrother, J. G. Lu, M. Tinkham

    Pages 447-467

14. The Superconducting Proximity Effect in Semiconductor-Superconductor Systems: Ballistic Transport, Low Dimensionality and Sample Specific Properties

    • Bart J. van Wees, Hideaki Takayanagi

    Pages 469-501

15. Scanning Probe Microscopes and their Applications

    • L. L. Sohn, C. T. Black, M. Eriksson, M. Crommie, H. Hess

    Pages 503-547

16. Quantum Point Contacts Between Metals

    • J. M. van Ruitenbeek

    Pages 549-579

17. Conductance Quantization in Metallic Nanowires

    • N. García, J. L. Costa-Krämer, A. Gil, M. I. Marqués, A. Correia

    Pages 581-616

18. Quantum Optics

    • Y. Yamamoto

    Pages 617-656

19. Topics in Quantum Computers

    • D. P. Divincenzo

    Pages 657-677

Ongoing developments in nanofabrication technology and the availability of novel materials have led to the emergence and evolution of new topics for mesoscopic research, including scanning-tunnelling microscopic studies of few-atom metallic clusters, discrete energy level spectroscopy, the prediction of Kondo-type physics in the transport properties of quantum dots, time dependent effects, and the properties of interacting systems, e.g. of Luttinger liquids. The overall understanding of each of these areas is still incomplete; nevertheless, with the foundations laid by studies in the more traditional systems there is no doubt that these new areas will advance mesoscopic electron transport to a new phenomenological level, both experimentally and theoretically.
Mesoscopic Electron Transport highlights selected areas in the field, provides a comprehensive review of such systems, and also serves as an introduction to the new and developing areas of mesoscopic electron transport.

• Semiconductor
• Superconductor
• optics
• quantum dot
• superconductivity

• Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

  Lydia L. Sohn

• Department of Applied Physics and DIMES, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

  Leo P. Kouwenhoven

• Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

  Gerd Schön

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