i Preface

iii Author Index

iv Keyword Index

Quantum Point Contacts and Quantum Wires

p.1 Detecting Local-Moment Formation Using Coupled Quantum Wires

Jonathan P. Bird, Alexandros Shailos, Vadim I. Puller, Lev G. Mourokh, Takahiro Morimoto, Nobuyuki Aoki, Takahiko Sasaki, Yuichi Ochiai, Michael P. Lilly, John L. Reno and Jerry A. Simmons

p.7 The 0.7 Conductance Feature Above the Kondo Temperature

David J. Reilly

p.12 Many-body Approach to Current-Voltage Asymmetries in Mesoscopic Quantum Systems

Jonas Fransson and Olle Eriksson

p.17 Transport in Pt Nanowires Fabricated by Focused-Ion-Beam Induced Deposition and Electron-Beam Induced Deposition

Jie.-Feng Lin, Lolita Rotkina and Jonathan P. Bird

p.21 Resonance Peak-Shape and the Position in Coupled Quantum Point Contact

Takahiro Morimoto, Takahiko Sasaki, Nobuyuki Aoki, Yuichi Ochiai, Alexandros Shailos, Jonathan P. Bird, Michael P. Lilly, Jerry A. Simmons and John R. Reno

Kondo Effect

p.25 Kondo Effect in Quantum Dots near Orbital Degeneracy

Mikio Eto

p.30 Tunable Exchange Interaction and Kondo Screening in Semiconductor Dot Devices

Hiroyuki Tamura, Hideaki Takayanagi, Kenji Shiraishi, LeonidI. Glazman

p.34 ³¹P-NMR and μSR Studies of Filled Skutterudite System SmT₄P₁₂ (T=Fe, Ru and Os)

Kenichi Hachitani, Hideto Fukazawa, Yoh Kohori, Yuichi Yoshimitsu, Ken-ichi Kumagai, Isao Watanabe, Ram Giri, Chihiro Sekine and Ichimin Shirotani

p.38 Efficient Electron Transfer from a Single Quantum Dot to Another by Controlling Potential Barrier

Tami Machida and Kiyoshi Kawamura

p.42 Control of Magnetism in a One-Dimensional Heisenberg Spin Chain with Hybrid Spin-Exchange Interactions

Shigemasa Matsuo, Noriyuki Hatakenaka and Katsuhiko Nagai

Fano Effect

p.45 Getting Information of Wavefunctions in Quantum Dots from the Fano Effect

Shingo Katsumoto, Hisashi Aikawa, Kensuke Kobayashi and Yasuhiro Iye

p.51 Fano Effects and Wave Functions in a Quantum Dot

Takeshi Nakanishi, Kiyoyuki Terakura, Tsuneya Ando

p.57 Spin Transport in Nanoelectronic Devices

Jun-Feng Song, Yuichi Ochiai and Jonathan P. Bird

p.61 Quantum Transport in Nano-Space at the Cross-Junction of Multi-Wall Carbon Nano-Tubes

Michio Kida, Takahiko Mihara, Koichiro Miyamoto, Shigeki Harada, Takahiko Sasaki, Nobuyuki Aoki and Yuichi Ochiai

Spin Related, Chaotic, and Carbon Fulleren Transports

p.65 Ballistic Switching Devices in the Non-Llinear Transport Regime

Lukas Worschech, Stephan Reitzenstein and Alfred Forchel

p.70 Spin-Related Transport in Narrow Wire Conductors made at High-In Content InGaAs/InAlAs Hetero-Junctions

Syoji Yamada

p.75 Mechanism of Sub-linear Channel Width Dependence of Quantum Hall Breakdown Current

Kenichi Oto, Takayoshi Katagiri and Taisuke Tsubota

p.79 Micro-stadium lasers

Takahisa Harayama

p.81 Quantum Non-Escape Probability in Spatially Open Chaotic Quantum System: Lyapunov Exponent Versus Periodic Orbits

Agung Budiyono, Takeo Kato and Kazuo Takatsuka

p.85 Numerical Study on Ballistic Electron Transport in the Presence of Magnetic Moment Islands

Yuu Miyagawa, Tsuyoshi Ueta

p.91 Zero-Field Peak Shape in the Low-Temperature Magnetoresistance in Gated 2DEG System

Shigeki Harada, Michio Kida, Takahiro Morimoto, Misako Hemmi, Ryota Naito, Takahiko Sasaki, Nobuyuki Aoki, Takahisa Harayama, Jonathan P. Bird and Yuichi Ochiai

p.95 Low Temperature Transport in an Individual and a Bundle of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Daiju Tsuya, Kouichi Shimazaki, Tomoko Fuse, Satoshi Moriyama, Masaki Suzuki, Yoshinobu Aoyagi and Kouji Ishibashi

p.97 Transport Properties of DNA Molecules by using Nano-Electrodes Based on Carbon Nanotube

Takahiko K. Sasaki, Asato Ikegami, Michika Mochizuki, Nobuyuki Aoki and Yuichi Ochiai

p.101 Charge Transport Study in a Low-Temperature Conductance of C₆₀ Field-Effect Transistor

Kazunaga Horiuchi, Shin Uchino, Shinobu Hashii, Akira Hashimoto, Tomohiro Kato, Takahiko Sasaki, Nobuyuki Aoki and Yuichi Ochiai