Condensation and coherence in condensed matter : proceedings of the Nobel Jubilee Symposium, Göteborg, Sweden, December 4-7, 2001 / editors, T. Claeson, P. Delsing.

"Recognized by the European Physical Society."

Includes bibliographical references.

List of Participants ; Introduction ; Quantum Coherence Between States with Even and Odd Numbers of Electrons ; References ; Superconductivity in High Tc Cuprates: The Cause is No Longer A Mystery; References ; Nanoelectromechanics of Coulomb Blockade Nanostructures ; 1. Introduction

1.1. Nanoelectromechanical coupling 2. Nanoelectromechanics with incoherent electrons ; 2.1. Shuttling of electrical charge by a movable Coulomb dot ; 3. Nanoelectromechanics with coherent electrons ; 3.1. Transfering Cooper pairs between remote superconductors

3.2. Establishing phase coherence 4 Conclusions ; Acknowledgements ; References ; Electron Spin in Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes ; 1. Introduction ; 2. High resistance metallic contacts: Coulomb blockade and addition energies; 3. Odd-even alternation. Bimodal distribution; 4. Tunnel contacts and the Luttinger liquid ; 5. Ferromagnetic contacts

6. Coherent tunnelling through the Coulomb blockade -- The Kondo effect 7. What is to come? ; Acknowledgements ; References ; The Critical Regime of the Metal-Insulator Transition in Conducting Polymers: Experimental Studies; 1. Introduction ; 2. The critical regime and crossover to the metallic and insulating regimes

3. Infrared reflectance studies of the metallic state and the M-I transition 4. Conclusion ; References ; Superfluidity and Coherence in Bose-Einstein Condensates ; 1. Observation of vortex lattices in Bose-Einstein condensates

In 2001, the Nobel Foundation celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first Nobel Prize, and all previous Nobel laureates were invited to attend the Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm. This gave an excellent opportunity for arranging jubilee symposia with topics that would attract several of the laureates. The chosen subject of "Condensation and Coherence in Condensed Systems" attracted sixteen Nobel laureates and another thirty-five leading scientists.The idea was to bring scientists together from several related subdisciplines: atomic physics, quantum optics, and condensed matter physics, for cross-breeding of ideas, concepts, and experience. Subjects like phase transitions in strongly coupled systems, Bose-Einstein condensation in weakly coupled systems, macroscopic quantum phenomena, coherence in mesoscopic structures, and quantum information were intensively discussed from different points of view. Coherence phenomena in condensed systems were emphasized. A special session was devoted to the emerging field of quantum computing, with experimental and theoretical results reported for different types of qu-bits. The 2001 Nobel Prize awarded to Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, and Carl Wieman, "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates," gave an extra flavor to the theme of the Centennial Symposium.

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