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Contents Preface Vii Chapter 1. Theory of interactions in nanostructures Few electron nanostructures: a laboratory for studying strongly interacting systems P.A. Lee Theory of quantum dot helium D. Pfannkuche, R.R. Gerhardts, P,A. Maksym and V. Gudmundsson Coulomb interaction and transport in tunnel junctions and quantum dots T. Brandes, W. Hausler, K. Jauregui, B. Kramer and D. Weinmann Coulomb blockade in resonant magnetotunneling through rectangular quantum dots J.J. Palacios, L. Martin-Moreno and C. Tejedor Interdot tunneling and Coulomb correlation G.W. Bryant Chaos and fluctuations in quantum dots A.D. Stone and H. Bruus Quantum interference, tunnel junctions and resonant tunneling interferometer Y.V. Nazarov Chapter 2. Transport experiments on quantum dots Coulomb interactions and energy-level spectrum of a small electron gas P.L. McEuen, N.S. Wingreen, E.B. Foxman, J. Kinaret, U. Meirav, M.A. Kastner, Y. 70 Meir and S.J. Wind Coulomb charging of a quantum dot in the presence of adiabatically transmitted edge channels B.W. Alphenaar, A.A.M. Staring, H. van Houten, I.K. Marmorkos, C.W.J. Beenakker 80 and C.T. Foxon Coulomb blockade and off-resonance tunneling in small electronic systems D.C. Glattli 88 Charging effects in quantum dots at high magnetic fields N.C. van der Vaart, A.T. Johnson, L.P. Kouwenhoven, D.J. Maas, W. de Jong, M.P. de Ruyter van Steveninck, A. van der Enden, C.J.P.M. Harmans and C.T. Foxon 99 Magnetotransport investigations of a quantum dot with a small number of electrons J. Weis, R.J. Haug, K. von Klitzing and K. Ploog 111 x Contents Single-electron capacitance spectroscopy of a few electron box R.C. Ashoori, H.L. Stormer, J.S. Weiner, L.N. Pfeiffer, S.J. Pearton, K.W. Baldwin and K.W. West 117 Transport in sub-micron resonant tunnelling devices P.C. Main, P.H. Beton, M.W. Dellow, L. Eaves, T.J. Foster, C.J.G.M. Langerak, M. Henini and J.W. Sakai 125 Vertical transport and tunneling through squeezable quantum dots N. Blanc, P. Guéret, R. Germann and H. Rothuizen 135 Chapter 3. Theory of confined structures in the FQHE regime A quantum dot in the fractional quantum Hall regime J.M. Kinaret 142 Single-electron tunneling in the fractional quantum Hall effect regime C.W.J. Beenakker and B. Rejaei 147 The role of accumulation layers in quantum dot arrays and quantum Hall effect devices A. Groshev and G. Schon 157 Chapter 4. Optical properties of quantum dots Far-infrared spectroscopy of quantum dots U. Merkt 165 Photon echo and exchange effects in quantum-confined semiconductors S.W. Koch, Y.Z. Hu and R. Binder 176 Chapter 5. Magnetic properties of nanostructures Quantum tunneling and dissipation in nanometer-scale magnets D. Loss, D.P. DiVincenzo, G. Grinstein, D.D. Awschalom and J.F. Smyth 189 Aharonov-Bohm ballistic billiards L.P. Lévy, D.H. Reich, L. Pfeiffer and K. West 204 Chapter 6. New techniques for the study of nanoscale structures Even—odd symmetry breaking in the NSN Coulomb blockade electrometer T.M. Eiles, J.M. Martinis and M.H. Devoret 210 Polarization charge relaxation and the Coulomb staircase in ultrasmall double-barrier tunnel junctions C. Schonenberger, H. van Houten and C.W.J. Beenakker 218 Conductance and supercurrent discontinuities in atomic size point contacts C.J. Muller, J.M. van Ruitenbeek, C.W.J. Beenakker and R. de Bruyn Ouboter pF a Transport in nanoscale silicon clusters R. Tsu 235 Contents Chapter 7. Quantum transport in one-dimensional wires Co-tunneling via the one-dimensional Wigner lattice D.V. Averin and Yu.V. Nazarov Transmission through barriers and resonant tunneling in a Luttinger liquid C.L. Kane Electron transport in quantum wires: effects of electromagnetic interaction A.A. Odintsov Conductance and Coulomb blockade in a multi-mode quantum wire K.A. Matveev and L.I. Glazman List of contributors Subject index