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PrefaceAcknowledgements1 Introduction 1.1 Nanostructures: the impact 1.2 Mesoscopic observables in nanostructures 1.3 Space and time scales 1.4 Nanostructures and nanodevices 1.5 An introduction to the subsequent chapters 1.6 What is omitted2 Quantum confined systems 2.1 Nanostructure materials 2.2 Quantization in heterojunction systems 2.3 Lateral confinement: quantum wires and quantum dots 2.4 Electronic states in quantum wires and dots 2.5 Magnetic field effects in quantum confined systems 2.6 Screening and collective excitations in low-dimensional systems 2.7 Homogeneous transport in low-dimensional systems3 Transmission in nanostructures 3.1 Tunneling in planar barrier structures 3.2 Current in resonant tunneling diodes 3.3 Landauer formula 3.4 The multi-channel case 3.5 Transport in quantum waveguide structures4 The quantum Hall effects 4.1 The integer quantum Hall effect in two-dimensional electron systems 4.2 Edge-state propagation in nanostructures 4.3 The fractional quantum Hall effect 4.4 The many-body picture5 Ballistic transport in quantum wires 5.1 Conductance quantization in quantum point contacts 5.2 Non-integer conductance quantization in quantum point contacts 5.3 Some ballistic device concepts6 Quantum dots 6.1 Fundamentals of single-electron tunneling 6.2 Single-electron tunneling in semiconductor quantum dots 6.3 Coupled quantum dots as artificial molecules 6.4 Quantum interference due to spatial wave function coherence in quantum dots7 Weakly disordered systems 7.1 Disordered semiconductors 7.2 Conductivity 7.3 Weak localization 7.4 Universal conductance fluctuations 7.5 Green's functions in disordered materials8 Temperature decay of fluctuations 8.1 Temperature decay of coherence 8.2 The role of temperature on the fluctuations 8.3 Electron-electron interaction effects 8.4 Conductivity9 Nonequilibrium transport and nanodevices 9.1 Nonequilibrium transport in mesoscopic structures 9.2 Semiconductor nanodevices in the real world 9.3 Quantum simulations via the scattering matrix 9.4 Real-time Green's functionsIndex