Quantum Mesoscopic Phenomena and Mesoscopic Devices in Microelectronics

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