ABSTRACT

In this chapter, we will make use of the general expressions for the effective action derived above for short coherent conductors and apply them in order to analyze Coulomb interaction effects in such conductors. Understanding of an interplay between coherent scattering and electron–electron interactions in such spatially confined system will then allow us to proceed to more complicated structures, including spatially extended disordered conductors, transport properties of which will be addressed in the next few chapters.