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2 A Guide for the Reader<br />

the Coulomb blockade. A further lowering of the temperature leads in<strong>to</strong> the<br />

Kondo regime.<br />

The fourth series of lectures deals with a very specific and cute aspect of<br />

nanophysics: a peculiar property of superconducting mirrors as discover<strong>ed</strong> by<br />

Andreev about forty years ago. The Andreev reflection at a superconduc<strong>to</strong>r<br />

modifies the excitation spect<strong>ru</strong>m of a quantum dot. The difference between a<br />

chaotic and integrable billiard (quantum dot) is discuss<strong>ed</strong> and relevant classical<br />

versus quantum time scales are given. The results are a challenge <strong>to</strong><br />

experimental physicists as they are not confirm<strong>ed</strong> as yet.

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