New Directions in Mesoscopic Physics (Towards Nanoscience)

Lectures. Field theories in physics of disordered conductors; D.E. Khmelnitskii. Non-Fermi-liquid metals in low dimensions; C. Di Castro, S. Capara. Counting statistics of mesoscopic noise; L.S. Levitov. Coulomb blockade and Kondo effect in quantum dots; L.I. Glazman, M. Pustinik. Quantum coherent transport: from mesoscopic circuits to molecular wires; H. Bouchiat, R. Deblock, M. Ferrier, S. Gueron, A. Kasumov, M. Kociak, B. Reulet. Phase measurements in quantum dots; A. Silva, M. Heiblum. Superconducting quantum bit based on the Cooper pair box; D. Vion, A. Aassime, A. Cottet, P. Joyez, H. Pothier, C. Urbina, D. Esteve, M. Devoret. Dissipation in Josephson qubits; Yu. Makhlin, G. Schön, A. Shnirman. Entanglement and decoherence studies in cavity QED experiments; J.-M. Raimond. Seminars. Quantum electromechanical systems; K. Schwab. Possible weak temperature dependence of electron dephasing; V.V. Afonin, J. Bergli, Y.M. Galperin, V.L. Gurevich, V.I. Gozub. Momentum-resolved tunneling: spectroscopic tool and basis for device applications; M. Governdale, U. Zülicke. Edge states and quantum Hall effects in d+id' superconductors; B. Horovitz, A. Golub. Universal scaling flow diagram for magnetoconductance; S.S. Murzin, M. Weiss, A.G.M. Jansen. Fluctuations of the anisotropy energy in nanoscale ferromagnetic particles; S. Kleff, J. von Delft. Full counting statistics in multi-terminal normal metal tunnel junction structures; J. Börlin, W. Belzig, C. Bruder. Resonant Cooper-pair tunneling: counting statistics and frequency-dependent current noise; A.A. Clerk. Influence of thermal fluctuations on an underdamped Josephson tunnel junction; I.S. Beloborodov, F.W.J. Hekking, F.Pistolesi. Quantum computing with many superconducting qubits; J.Q. You, J.S. Tsai, F. Nori. Few-electron liquid and solid phases in artificial molecules at high magnetic field; M. Rontani, G. Goldoni, E. Molinari. Phase coherence and spin dynamics; M.Y. Veillette.