Fundamental Problems of Mesoscopic Physics: Interactions and Decoherence

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Electron Dephasing in Mesoscopic Metal Wires....Pages 3-6
Decoherence Effects in the Josephson Current of a Cooper Pair Shuttle....Pages 17-31
Dephasing in Disordered Metals with Superconductive Grains....Pages 33-47
Decoherence in Disordered Conductors at Low Temperatures: The Effect of Soft Local Excitations....Pages 49-64
Quantum Precursor of Shuttle Instability....Pages 65-73
Dephasing and Dynamic Localization in Quantum Dots....Pages 75-98
Mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm Oscillations in Metallic Rings....Pages 99-114
Influence Functional for Decoherence of Interacting Electrons in Disordered Conductors....Pages 115-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Low-Frequency Noise as a Source of Dephasing of a Qubit....Pages 141-165
Entanglement Production in a Chaotic Quantum Dot....Pages 167-177
Creation and Detection of Mobile and Non-Local Spin-Entangled Electrons....Pages 179-202
Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition in Josephson Junction Arrays....Pages 203-216
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Quantum Coherent Transport and Superconductivity in Carbon Nanotubes....Pages 219-238
Quantum Hall Ferromagnets, Co-Operative Transport Anisotropy, and the Random Field Ising Model....Pages 239-250
Exotic Proximity Effects in Superconductor/Ferromagnet Structure....Pages 251-274
Transport in Luttinger Liquids....Pages 275-284
Interaction Effects on Counting Statistics and the Transmission Distribution....Pages 285-293
Variable-Range Hopping in One-Dimensional Systems....Pages 295-308
On the Electron-Electron Interactions in Two Dimensions....Pages 309-327
Correlations and Spin in Transport Through Quantum Dots....Pages 329-348
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Interactions in High-Mobility 2D Electron and Hole Systems....Pages 349-370