Theory of Quantum Transport in Metallic and Hybrid Nanostructures [electronic resource] / edited by Andreas Glatz, Veniamin I. Kozub, Valerii M. Vinokur.

Coherence and Correlation Effects -- Phase Measurements in Closed Aharonov-Bohm Interferometers -- Berry Phase with Environment: Classical versus Quantum -- Quantum Mesoscopic Phenomena -- Electron Transport in Granular Metals -- Studies of Current-Driven Excitations in Co/Cu/Co Trilayer Nanopillars -- Nanomechanical Effects in Suspended Carbon Nanotubes -- Transport through Ferromagnet/Superconductor Interfaces -- Anomalous Negative Magnetoresistance Caused by Non-Markovian Effects -- Persistent Currents in Interacting Aharonov-Bohm Interferometers -- Experimental Implementations of the Superconductor-Insulator Transition -- Thermal Fluctuations in One-Dimensional Disordered Quantum Systems -- Coulomb Drag between Quantum Wires: Effect of Small Momentum Transfer -- Signatures of Spin-Charge Separation in Double-Quantum Wire Tunneling -- Transport of Interacting Electrons through a Double Barrier -- Ratchet Effects in Luttinger Liquids -- Superconductivity in Nanostructures -- Ferromagnetic-Superconducting Hybrid Systems -- STM Spectroscopy of the Local Density of States in Normal Metal - Superconductor Systems -- Quantum Tunneling between Paramagnetic and Superconducting States of a Nanometer-Scale Superconducting Grain Placed in a Magnetic Field -- Domain Wall Superconductivity in Ferromagnetic Superconductors and Hybrid S/F Structures -- Rasba Spin-Orbit Interaction in a Ballistic Josephson Junction -- Manifestation of Triplet Superconductivity in Superconductor-Ferromagnet Structures -- Noise and Fluctuation Phenomena -- Phase Dependent Current Statistics in a Short-Arm Andreev Interferometer -- Semiclassical Theory of Higher Cumulants of Noise -- Josephson Junctions as Threshold Detectors for Full Counting Statistics -- Energy Dependence of Current Noise in Superconducting/Normal Metal Junctions -- Measurement of the Third Moment of Voltage Fluctuations in a Tunnel Junction -- Shot Noise in Mesoscopic Transport Through Localised States -- Single Electron Physics -- Single Particle Transport in Disordered Andreev Wires -- Two-Channel Kondo Effect in a Modified Single Electron Transistor -- Spin-Dependent Transport of Electrons in a Shuttle Structure.

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