Table of Contents

Preface
Preface to the second edition
List of symbols
1: Introduction and a brief review of experimental systems
2: Quantum transport, Anderson Localization
3: Dephasing by coupling with the environment, application to Coulomb electron-electron interactions in metals
4: Mesoscopic effects in equilibrium and static properties
5: Quantum interference effects in transport properties, the Landauer formulation and applications
6: The Quantum Hall Effect
7: Mesoscopics with superconductivity
8: Noise in mesoscopic systems
9: Concluding remarks
A. The Kubo, linear response, formulation
B. The Kubo-Greenwood Conductivity and the Edwards-Thouless Relationships
C. The Aharonov-Bohm Effect and the Byers-Yang and Bloch Theorem
D. Derivation of matrix elements in the diffusion regime
E. Careful treatment of dephasing in 2D conductors at low temperatures
F. Anomalies in the density of states (DOS)
G. Quasiclassical theory of spectral correlations
H. Details of the four-terminal formulation
I. Universality of the conductance fluctuations in terms of the universal correlation of transmission eigenvalues
J. The conductance of ballistic 'point contacts'

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"For researchers and graduate students in physics, chemistry, and electronic and optical engineering, Imry (physics, Weizmann Institute, Israel) explains concepts and tools to investigate systems that fall between the molecular and the bulk--generally a cluster of molecules that acts in many ways like a large molecule but has certain qualities unique to the size range. In particular he shows how the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics and statistical physics appear, and are amenable, to theoretical clarification and experimental examination in mesoscopic systems."--SciTech Book News