edited by Amnon Aharony (Ben Gurion University, Israel) & Ora Entin-Wohlman (Ben Gurion University, Israel)

Table of Contents (44k)
Preface (25k)
Introduction (172k)
Chapter 1: The Kondo Screening Cloud: What It Is and How to Observe It (1,142k)

Professor Yoseph (Joe) Imry, an early initiator of mesoscopic physics, has been among the leaders in this field for several decades. This book contains articles by leading (theoretical and experimental) scientists working in nanoscience and in related fields. Most of the contributions, consisting both reviews of the state of the art and new results, summarize invited talks given at two conferences held in honor of Imry's 70th birthday: the 101st Statistical Mechanics Conference (Rutgers University, May 10–12, 2009), and Perspectives of Mesoscopic Physics (Weizmann Institute of Science, May 31–June 1, 2009). This book covers a broad range of active research in nanoscience, including topics like quantum interference, decoherence, electron correlations, nano superconductors and nano magnets, nonequilibrium and glassy behavior.

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• The Kondo Screening Cloud: What It Is and How to Observe It (I Affleck)
• Plasmonics, Nanoplasmonics, and SPASER's (D J Bergman)
• Entanglement, Bunching, and Counting Statistics (C Bruder & W Belzig)
• Transport Currents and Persistent Currents in Solids: Orbital Magnetism and Hall Effect of Dirac Electrons (H Fukuyama et al.)
• Bloch and Josephson Oscillations in a Ring of an Ideal Bose Gas (L Gunther)
• Exploring Decoherence in Cavity QED (S Haroche et al.)
• Fractional Charge Determination via Quantum Shot Noise Measurements (M Heiblum)
• Fabry-Perot Interferometer and Non-Abelian Quantum Hall Stages (R Ilan et al.)
• Molecular Conduction Junctions: Intermolecular Effects (A Landau et al.)
• Mesoscopic Effects in the Electron-Glass (Z Ovadyahu)
• Electron Coherence and Dephasing in Metal Films, Wires and Rings (D E Prober)
• The Third Moment of Current Fluctuations in a Tunnel Junction: Experiments in the Classical and Quantum Regimes (B Reulet et al.)
• Magnetic Avalanches in Molecular Nanomagnets (M P Sarachik & S McHugh)
• Mesoscopies and the High T_c Problem (D J Scalapino et al.)
• An Effective Theory of Pulse Propagation in a Nonlinear and Disordered Medium in Two Dimensions (G Schwiete & A M Finkel'stein)
• Fluctuation Effects in Small Superconducting Rings (G Schwiete & Y Oreg)
• Phase Coherent Electron Transport through Double Dots (M Sigrist et al.)
• Spin-Hall Effect in Chiral Electron Systems: From Semiconductor Heterostructures to Topological Insulators (P G Silvestrov & E G Mishchenko)
• The Aharonov–Bohm Effect and Its Applications to Magnetic Field Observation (A Tonomura)
• Dimensional Crossover of the Dephasing Time in Disordered Mesoscopic Rings: From Diffusive through Ergodic to 0D Behavior (M Treiber et al.)
• Single-Electron Tunneling and Fluctuation Theorem (Y Utsumi et al.)
• Phase Relaxation of Electrons in Disordered Thin Ferromagnetic Films (P Wölfle & K A Muttalib)