This report on progress explores recent advances in our theoretical and experimental
understanding of the physics of open quantum systems (OQSs). The study of such systems …

In this review, we discuss the results of recent experimental studies of the low-temperature
electron dephasing time (τ ϕ) in metal and semiconductor mesoscopic structures. A major …

The relevance of the open quantum system formalism for the description of weakly bound
nuclei far from the valley of stability, small droplets of neutral atoms, gas of trapped atoms …

Snake states are trajectories of charge carriers curving back and forth along an interface.
There are two types of snake states, formed by either inverting the magnetic field direction or …

We present scanning-probe images and magnetic-field plots which reveal fractal
conductance fluctuations in a quantum billiard. The quantum billiard is drawn and tuned …

We show that the combination of X-ray scattering with a nanofocused beam and X-ray cross
correlation analysis is an efficient way for the full structural characterization of …

We describe how a spin filter may be realized in open quantum-dot systems, by exploiting
the Fano resonances that occur in their transmission characteristics. In quantum dots in …

We investigate chaotic electron transport in the lowest miniband of a semiconductor
superlattice with a tilted magnetic field. This experimentally accessible non–Kolmogorov …

Recent work on the role of decoherence has suggested that the decay of quantum effects is
governed by a discrete set of pointer states, which affect the quantum to classical …

In a recent work the resonance widths in a microwave billiard with attached waveguide were
studied in dependence on the coupling strength [E. Persson et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2478 …