Theory of Quantum Transport in Metallic and Hybrid Nanostructures (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)

Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 6
List of Contributors......Page 11
Part I: Coherence and Correlation Effects......Page 14
Phase Measurements in Closed Aharonov-Bohm Interferometers......Page 15
Berry Phase with Environment: Classical versus Quantum......Page 21
Part II: Quantum Mesoscopic Phenomena......Page 36
Electron Transport in Granular Metals......Page 37
Studies of Current-Driven Excitations in Co/Cu/Co Trilayer Nanopillars......Page 48
Nanomechanical Effects in Suspended Carbon Nanotubes......Page 55
Transport through Ferromagnet/Superconductor Interfaces......Page 65
Anomalous Negative Magnetoresistance Caused by Non-Markovian Effects......Page 75
Persistent Currents in Interacting Aharonov-Bohm Interferometers......Page 84
Experimental Implementations of the Superconductor-Insulator Transition......Page 90
Thermal Fluctuations in One-Dimensional Disordered Quantum Systems......Page 97
Coulomb Drag between Quantum Wires: Effect of Small Momentum Transfer......Page 124
Signatures of Spin-Charge Separation in Double-Quantum-Wire Tunneling......Page 133
Transport of Interacting Electrons through a Double Barrier......Page 145
Ratchet Effects in Luttinger Liquids......Page 151
Part III: Superconductivity in Nanostructures......Page 160
Ferromagnetic-Superconducting Hybrid Systems......Page 161
STM Spectroscopy of the Local Density of States in Normal Metal - Superconductor Systems......Page 174
Quantum Tunneling between Paramagnetic and Superconducting States of a Nanometer-Scale Superconducting Grain Placed in a Magnetic Field......Page 188
Domain Wall Superconductivity in Ferromagnetic Superconductors and Hybrid S/F Structures......Page 210
Rasba Spin-Orbit Interaction in a Ballistic Josephson Junction......Page 216
Manifestation of Triplet Superconductivity in Superconductor-Ferromagnet Structures......Page 230
Part IV: Noise and Fluctuation Phenomena......Page 240
Phase Dependent Current Statistics in a Short-Arm Andreev Interferometer......Page 241
Semiclassical Theory of Higher Cumulants of Noise......Page 256
Josephson Junctions as Threshold Detectors for Full Counting Statistics......Page 262
Energy Dependence of Current Noise in Superconducting/Normal Metal Junctions......Page 270
Measurement of the Third Moment of Voltage Fluctuations in a Tunnel Junction......Page 276
Shot Noise in Mesoscopic Transport Through Localised States......Page 282
Part V: Single Electron Physics......Page 288
Single Particle Transport in Disordered Andreev Wires......Page 289
Two-Channel Kondo Effect in a Modified Single Electron Transistor......Page 294
Spin-Dependent Transport of Electrons in a Shuttle Structure......Page 303
J......Page 316
Z......Page 317