Quantum Mesoscopic Phenomena and Mesoscopic Devices in Microelectronics Book

	Preface
Pt. I	Quantum Contacts and Wires
1	Nonlinear Phenomena in Metallic Contacts	3
2	Conductance Channels of Gold Atomic-Size Contacts	27
3	Experiments on Conductance at the Atomic Scale	35
4	Why does a Metal-Superconductor Junction have a Resistance?	51
5	Point-Contact Spectroscopy of Superconductors	61
6	Atomic Structure, Quantized Electrical and Thermal Conductance of Nanowires	79
7	Magnetotransport and Magnetocohesion in Nanowires	95
Pt. II	Qoulomb Blockade and the Kondo Problem
8	Mesoscopic Fluctuations of Co-Tunneling and Kondo Effect in Quantum Dots	105
9	Quantum Smearing of Coulomb Blockade	129
10	Coulomb Blockade in Single Tunnel Junction Connected to Nanowire and Carbon Nanotube	145
11	Transport through Quantum Dots and the Kondo Problem	161
12	Coulomb Blockade in Quantum Dots with Overlapping Resonances	169
Pt. III	Dephasing and Shot Noise
13	Dephasing and Shot-Noise in Mesoscopic Systems	185
14	Charge Fluctuations and Dephasing in Coulomb Coupled Conductors	211
15	Transport and Noise in Multiterminal Diffusive Conductors	243
16	Memory Effects in Stochastic Ratchets	251
Pt. IV	Aharonov-Bohm Effect and Vortices
17	Non-Decaying Currents in Normal Metals	259
18	Persistent Current in a Mesoscopic Ring with Strongly Coupled Polarons	283
19	Superfluidity and Planar Vortices in Systems with Pairing of Spatially Separated Electrons and Holes	293
Pt. V	Josephson Effect
20	Weakly Coupled Macroscopic Quantum Systems: Likeness with Difference	301
21	Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena in Josephson Systems	321
22	Vortex Confinement Phenomena in Mesoscopic Superconductors	329
Pt. VI	Mesoscopic Superconductivity
23	Superconducting Nanoparticles and Nanowires	349
24	Superconductivity in Ultrasmall Grains: Introduction to Richardson's Exact Solution	361
25	Superconductivity in Ultrasmall Metallic Particles	371
26	Tunneling Spectroscopy of Metallic Quantum Dots	381
Pt. VII	Quantum Computation
27	Quantum Computation and Spin Electronics	399
28	Decoherence of the Superconducting Persistent Current Qubit	429
29	Quantum Computing and Josephson Junction Circuits	439
Pt. VIII	Nano-Electronics
30	Recent Advances in Nanotechnology: An Overview	449
31	Quantum Electron Optics and its Applications	457
32	Physics and Applications of Photonic Crystals	467
33	Conductance in Metallic Submicron Cross-Junctions	479
	Author Index	485
	Citation Index	487