Fundamental Problems of Mesoscopic Physics

Decoherence and Dephasing.- Electron Dephasing in Mesoscopic Metal Wires.- Decoherence Effects in the Josephson Current of a Cooper Pair Shuttle.- Dephasing in Disordered Metals with Superconductive Grains.- Decoherence in Disordered Conductors at Low Temperatures: The Effect of Soft Local Excitations.- Quantum Precursor of Shuttle Instability.- Dephasing and Dynamic Localization in Quantum Dots.- Mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm Oscillations in Metallic Rings.- Influence Functional for Decoherence of Interacting Electrons in Disordered Conductors.- Entanglement and Qubits.- Low-Frequency Noise as a Source of Dephasing of a Qubit.- Entanglement Production in a Chaotic Quantum Dot.- Creation and Detection of Mobile and Non-Local Spin-Entangled Electrons.- Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition in Josephson Junction Arrays.- Interactions in Normal and Superconducting Systems.- Quantum Coherent Transport and Superconductivity in Carbon Nanotubes.- Quantum Hall Ferromagnets, Co-Operative Transport Anisotropy, and the Random Field Ising Model.- Exotic Proximity Effects in Superconductor/Ferromagnet Structure.- Transport in Luttinger Liquids.- Interaction Effects on Counting Statistics and the Transmission Distribution.- Variable-Range Hopping in One-Dimensional Systems.- On the Electron-Electron Interactions in Two Dimensions.- Correlations and Spin in Transport Through Quantum Dots.- Interactions in High-Mobility 2D Electron and Hole Systems.