Perspectives Of Mesoscopic Physics: Dedicated To Yoseph Imry's 70th Birthday

Professor Yoseph (Joe) Imry, an early initiator of mesoscopic physics, has been among the leaders in this field for several decades. This book contains articles by leading (theoretical and experimental) scientists working in nanoscience and in related fields. Most of the contributions, consisting both reviews of the state of the art and new results, summarize invited talks given at two conferences held in honor of Imry's 70th birthday: the 101st Statistical Mechanics Conference (Rutgers University, May 10-12, 2009), and Perspectives of Mesoscopic Physics (Weizmann Institute of Science, May 31-June 1, 2009). This book covers a broad range of active research in nanoscience, including topics like quantum interference, decoherence, electron correlations, nano superconductors and nano magnets, nonequilibrium and glassy behavior.

Table of Contents:
Phase Relaxation of Electrons in Disordered Metallic Ferromagnetic Films (P Wolfle & K A Muttalib); The Kondo Screening Cloud: What It Is and How to Observe It (I Affleck); Single-Electron Tunneling and the Fluctuation Theorem (Y Utsumi et al.); Magnetic Avalanches in Molecular Magnets (M Sarachik); Dimensional Crossover of the Dephasing Time in a Disordered Mesoscopic Ring Weakly Coupled to Leads (M Treiber et al.); The Aharonov-Bohm Effect and Its Applications to Magnetic Field Observation (A Tonomura); Mesoscopic Effects in the Electron-Glass (Z Ovadyahu); Molecular Conduction Junctions: Intermolecular Effects (A Landau et al.); Quantum Shot Noise in Edge Channels (M Heiblum); Simple Models that Provide Insight into Strongly Correlated Electron Materials (D J Scalapino); The Bio-Electronic Synapse - Merging Biology with Electronics at the Molecular Level (A Artzy-Schnirman et al.); A Physical Approach to Interference of Non-Abelian Quasi-Particles in the Quantum Hall Effect (R Ilan et al.); Persistent Current in Small Superconducting Ring (G Schwiete & Y Oreg); Nonlinear Wave-Packet Dynamics in a Disordered Medium (G Schwiete & A Finkel'stein); Elastic and Inelastic Tunneling Through Quantum Dots Embedded in Aharonov-Bohm Rings (M Sigrist et al.); Bloch and Josephson Oscillations in a Ring of an Ideal Bose Gas (L Gunther); Spin-Hall Effect in Chiral Electron Systems: From Semiconductor Heterostructures to Topological Insulators (P G Silvestrov & E G Mishchenko); Plasmonics, Nanoplasmonics, and SPASER's (D J Bergman); Quantum Impurities Out of Equilibrium (N Andrei); Manipulating and Measuring Non-Classical States of Light in a Cavity (S Haroche et al.); Position and Momentum Measurements in Nano-Electromechanical Systems (C B Doiron et al.);