Lectures and seminar talks review theory and experimental work concerning transport phenomena and the closely related quantum mechanics in 11 chapters covering preparation and characterization, coherence and dephasing, quantization of conductance, quantum Hall effect, persistent currents, quantum tr

The articles in this book have been selected from the lectures of a NATO Advanced Study Institute held at Bad Lauterberg (Germany) in August 1995. Internationally well-known researchers in the field of mesoscopic quantum physics provide insight into the fundamental physics underlying the mesoscopic transport phenomena in structured semiconductor inversion layers. In addition, some of the most recent achievements are reported in contributed papers. The aim of the volume is not to give an overview over the field. Instead, emphasis is on interaction and correlation phenomena that turn out to be...