Fundamental Problems of Mesoscopic Physics

-Preface. -I: Decoherence and Dephasing. 1. Electron dephasing in mesoscopic metal wires; N.O. Birge, F. Pierre. 2. Decoherence effects in the Josephson current of a Cooper pair shuttle; A. Romito, R. Fazio. 3. Dephasing in disordered metals with superconductive grains; M.A. Skvortsov, et al. 4. Decoherence in disordered conductors at low temperatures: the effect of soft local excitations; Y. Imry, et al. 5. Quantum precursor of shuttle instability; D. Fedorets, et al. 6. Dephasing and dynamic localization in quantum dots; V.E. Kravtsov. 7. Mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in metal rings; T. Ludwig, A.D. Mirlin. 8. Influence function for decoherence of interacting electrons in disordered conductors; J. von Delft. -II: Entanglement and Qubits. 9. Low-frequency noise as a source of dephasing of a qubit; Y.M. Galperin, et al. 10. Entanglement production in a chaotic quantum dot; C.W.J. Beenakker, et al. 11. Creation and detection of mobile and non-local spin-entangled electrons; P. Recher, et al. 12. Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in Josephson junction arrays; L. Capriotti, et al. -III: Interactions in Normal and Superconducting Systems. 13. Quantum coherent transport and superconductivity in carbon nanotubes; M. Ferrier, et al. 14. Quantum Hall ferromagnets, cooperative transport anisotropy, and the random field Ising model; J.T. Chalker, et al. 15. Exotic proximity effects in superconductor/ferromagnet structure; F.S. Bergeret, et al. 16. Transport in Luttinger liquids; T. Giamarchi, et al. 17. Interaction effects on counting statistics and the transmission distribution; M. Kindermann, Y.V. Nazarov. 18. Variable-range hopping in one-dimensional systems; J. Prior, et al. 19. On the electron-electron interactions in two dimensions; V.M. Pudalov, et al. 20. Correlations and spin in transport through quantum dots; M. Sassetti, et al. 21. Interactions in high-mobility 2D electron and hole systems; E.A. Galaktionov, et al.