Fundamental Problems of Mesoscopic Physics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Back Matter

   Pages 371-373

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3. Entanglement and Qubits

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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4. Decoherence and Dephasing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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5. Interactions in Normal and Superconducting Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217

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Mesoscopic physics deals with effects at submicron and nanoscales where the conventional wisdom of macroscopic averaging is no longer applicable. A wide variety of new devices have recently evolved, all extremely promising for major novel directions in technology, including carbon nanotubes, ballistic quantum dots, hybrid mesoscopic junctions made of different type of normal, superconducting and ferromagnetic materials. This, in turn, demands a profound understanding of fundamental physical phenomena on mesoscopic scales. As a result, the forefront of fundamental research in condensed matter has been moved to the areas where the interplay between electron-electron interactions and quantum interference of phase-coherent electrons scattered by impurities and/or boundaries is the key to such understanding. An understanding of decoherence as well as other effects of the interactions is crucial for developing future electronic, photonic and spintronic devices, including the element base for quantum computation.

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• University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

  Igor V. Lerner

• Princeton University and NEC Research Institute, Princeton, USA

  Boris L. Altshuler

• The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

  Yuval Gefen

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