Kondo Effect and Dephasing in Low-Dimensional Metallic Systems Book

	Preface
	Introduction
	Finite Size Effects in Kondo Alloys
	Effect of Disorder on the Kondo Behavior of Thin Cu(Mn) Films	1
	The Kondo Effect and Weak Localization	11
	Surface Magnetic Anisotropy of Kondo Impurities Induced by Spin-Orbit Scattering	23
	Finite Size Effects in Spin Glass Alloys
	Thermopower of Mesoscopic Spin Glasses	33
	Shape-Induced Magnetic Anisotropy in Dilute Magnetic Alloys	43
	Zero-Bias Transport Anomaly in Metallic Nanobridges: Magnetic field dependence and universal conductance fluctuations	53
	Conductance Noise and Irreversibility in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors	63
	Point Contact Spectroscopy and Tunneling Spectroscopy of Kondo Impurities
	Enhancement of Kondo Temperature in Nanometer-Size Point Contacts	73
	Scanning Tunnelling Spectroscopy of a Single Kondo Impurity	87
	Two-Level Systems and Dephasing in Thin Metal Structures
	Two-Channel Kondo Effect from Tunneling Impurities	97
	Electron Decoherence at Zero Temperature: The phenomenology and associated difficulties	107
	Probing Interactions in Mesoscopic Gold Wires	119
	Kondo Effect in Non-Equilibrium: Theory of energy relaxation induced by dynamical defects in diffusive nanowires	133
	Kondo Effect in Quantum Dots
	Tunneling Through a Quantum Dot: The out-of-equilibrium Kondo effect	143
	Electron Transport through Quantum Dots: An Unusual Kondo Effect	153
	The Kondo Effect in a Single-Electron Transistor	163
	Contributions related to Poster Presentations
	Flux Dependent Dielectric Response of Stacked Nanoscopic Rings	171
	High-Frequency Response of Two-Level Systems in Ni[subscript x]Nb[subscript 1-x] Metallic Point Contacts	175
	Giant Magnetoresistance of a Single Interface: Magnetoresistance of Ag/Fe/Ag trilayers	181
	Fermi Edge Singularities in Transport through Quantum Dots	185
	Theory of Magnetoresistance in Films of Dilute Magnetic Alloys	189
	Current and Shot Noise in a Ferromagnetic Double Tunnel Junction with an Atomic Size Spacer	193
	Positive Domain-Wall Magnetoresistance of Ferromagnetic Point Contacts	197
	Enhancement of Kondo Effect Due to Spin-Singlet-Triplet Competition in Quantum Dots	203
	A Non-Kondo Interpretation of the Experimentally Observed "Kondo Resonances" in Quantum Dots	207
	Diagrammatic Theory of the Anderson Impurity Model with Finite Coulomb Interaction	211
	Generalized Conductance Sum Rule in Atomic Break Junctions	215
	Is CeNiSn a Kondo Semiconductor? Break-junction experiments	219
	The Influence of Single Magnetic Impurities on the Conductance of Quantum Microconstrictions	223
	Structural Properties of Colloidal Co Nanoparticles	227
	Interacting Electrons in a Nearly Straight Quantum Wire	231
	Resonant Tunneling through an Impurity Level: A Probe of Coherent States in a Disordered Metal	237
	Pair Breaking in s-Wave Superconductors by Two-Channel Kondo Impurities	241
	Theory of Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Kondo Ions on Metal Surfaces	245
	Two-Level Systems in Atomic-Size Point Contacts	249
	Is the Multi-Channel Kondo Model Appropriate to Describe Single Electron Transistors?	253
	List of Observers	257
	List of Participants	259