Quantum coherence in mesoscopic systems [proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute on Quantum Coherence in Mesoscopic Systems, held April 2 - 13, 1990, in Les Arcs, France

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of Two-Dimensional Electronic Systems with Tunable Charge Density (Detlef Heitmann, Klaus Ensslin)....Pages 3-22 Spectroscopy on Laterally Confined Electron Systems (Wolfgang Hansen)....Pages 23-44 Electronic Structure of Small Systems (Ulrich Rössler)....Pages 45-62 Front Matter ....Pages 63-63 Conductance Oscillations and Phase Coherence in Submicron Metal Films (Chris Van Haesendonck, Hans Vloeberghs, Yvan Bruynseraede)....Pages 65-84 Two-Dimensional Conductivity of Thin Inhomogeneous Gold Films (Günter Dumpich, Axel Carl)....Pages 85-90 Spin-Orbit Effects in Disordered Systems (Yigal Meir, Yuval Gefen, Ora Entin-Wohlmann)....Pages 91-97 Linear Response and Dephasing by Coulomb Electron-Electron Interactions (Ady Stern, Yakir Aharonov, Yoseph Imry)....Pages 99-104 Quantum Coherence Effects in One-Dimensional Chains with Inelastic Scattering (Michael Schreiber, Klaus Maschke)....Pages 105-109 Front Matter ....Pages 111-111 Transport in an Electron Waveguide (Gregory Timp, Robert E. Behringer, Eric H. Westerwick, Jack E. Cunningham)....Pages 113-151 Magnetoresistance and Boundary Scattering in Ballistic Wires (Trevor J. Thornton, Michael L. Roukes, Axel Scherer, Bart P. Van der Gaag)....Pages 153-167 Adiabatic Mode Selection and Accuracy of Quantization of Ballistic Point Contacts (Amir Yacobi, Yoseph Imry)....Pages 169-173 Front Matter ....Pages 175-175 Adiabatic Transport in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect Regime (Carlo W. J. Beenakker)....Pages 177-193 The Quantum Hall Effects (Allan H. MacDonald)....Pages 195-217 Front Matter ....Pages 219-219 Persistent Currents in Mesoscopic Normal Metal Rings (Yoseph Imry)....Pages 221-236 Search for Persistent Currents (Alain Benoit, Dominique Mailly, Mohamed El-Khatib, Pierre Perrier)....Pages 237-244 Persistent Currents in Mesoscopic Rings: Ensemble Average and Half-Flux-Quantum Periodicity (Hèléne Bouchiat, Gilles Montambaux, L. P. Levyt, G. Dolan, J. Dunsmuir)....Pages 245-260 Persistent Currents in Mesoscopic Rings (Eberhard K. Riedel)....Pages 261-276 Front Matter ....Pages 277-277 Rigorous Perturbation Results in the Theory of Mesoscopic Fluctuations: Distribution Functions and Time-Dependent Phenomena (Igor V. Lerner)....Pages 279-306 High-Frequency Quantum Transport (Friedemar Kuchar, Josef Lutz, Kim Y. Lim, Ronald Meisels, Günter Weimann, Wilfried Schlapp et al.)....Pages 307-315 Frequency Dependent Transport in Quantum Coherent Systems (Bernhard Kramer, Jan Mašek)....Pages 317-326 High-Frequency Properties of Mesoscopic Junctions (Vladimir I. Fal’ko)....Pages 327-331 Response Time in High-Frequency Quantum Transport (Yaotian Fu)....Pages 333-338 Front Matter ....Pages 339-339 Resistance Fluctuations in Small Samples: Be Careful When Playing with Ohm’s Law (Sean Washburn)....Pages 341-367 Random Transfer Matrix Theory and Conductance Fluctuations (Jean-Louis Pichard, Jean-Louis Pichard)....Pages 369-400 Sensitivity of Quantum Conductance Fluctuations to Time Reversal Symmetry (Dominique Mailly, Marc Sanquer)....Pages 401-404 Universal Conductance Fluctuations in Narrow Channel Mosfets (Jacob Caro, Jianrong Gao, Adrianus H. Verbruggen, Sybrand Radelaar, Jan Middelhoek)....Pages 405-412 Front Matter ....Pages 413-413 Localization and Fluctuations (Angus MacKinnon)....Pages 415-427 Localization and String Theory (Shinobu Hikami)....Pages 429-434 Scaling Exponents at a Mobility Edge in Two Dimensions (Spiros Evangelou)....Pages 435-440 One-Parameter Scaling of the Localization Length in High Magnetic Fields (Bodo Huckestein)....Pages 441-447 Probability and Scaling in One-Dimensional Disordered Systems (Keith Slevin)....Pages 449-453 Front Matter ....Pages 455-455 Superconducting Wire Networks (Bernard Pannetier)....Pages 457-484 Phase Coherence and Critical Resistance in Superconducting Granular Films (Shun-ichi Kobayashi)....Pages 485-490 Quantum Effects in Granular Superconductors (Wilhelm Zwerger)....Pages 491-507 Front Matter ....Pages 509-509 Vortices and Charges in Tunnel Junction Networks (Herre S. J. van der Zant, Lambert J. Geerligs, Johan E. Mooij)....Pages 511-530 Single Electron Effects in Small Tunnel Junctions (Dmitri V. Averin, Gerd Schön)....Pages 531-570 Charge Kosterlitz-Thouless-Berezinskii Transition in Arrays of Tunnel Junctions (Rosario Fazio)....Pages 571-580 Front Matter ....Pages 581-581 Quantum Signatures of Chaos (Fritz Haake)....Pages 583-595 Non-Separable Variables: Hierarchical Quantization and Tunneling Resonances (Mark Ya. Azbel)....Pages 597-605 Dynamical Localization, Dissipation, and Repeated Measurements (Robert Graham)....Pages 607-615 Hamiltonian Chaos in Lateral Surface Superlattices (Theo Geisel, Josef Wagenhuber)....Pages 617-622 Back Matter ....Pages 623-632