1. Preface

   • Paolo Silvestrini
   • Berardo Ruggiero
   • Antonio Barone

   Preface Pages: 681 - 681

2. The Significance of the MQC Experiment

   • A. J. Leggett

   OriginalPaper Pages: 683 - 687

3. Resonant Magnetization Tunneling in the Molecular Magnet Mn12 Acetate

   • Jonathan R. Friedman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 689 - 693

4. Stochastic Wave Function Approach to Generalized Master Equations

   • Heinz-Peter Breuer
   • Bernd Kappler
   • Francesco Petruccione

   OriginalPaper Pages: 695 - 702

5. A Time Scale for Quantum Jumps

   • L. S. Schulman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 703 - 706

6. Quantum Error Correction and Reversible Operations

   • Carlton M. Caves

   OriginalPaper Pages: 707 - 718

7. Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Mesoscopic Systems

   • H. Dekker
   • Alec Maassen van den Brink

   OriginalPaper Pages: 719 - 725

8. Direct Evidence of Macroscopic Quantum Effects at High Temperature

   • P. Silvestrini
   • B. Ruggiero
   • M. Russo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 727 - 733

9. Resonance Phenomena in Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling

   • Yu. N. Ovchinnikov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 735 - 739

10. Radio Frequency-Single Electron Transistor: A Fast and Sensitive Electrometer Analogous to the Radio Frequency-Superconducting Quantum Interference Device

    • P. Wahlgren
    • R. J. Schoelkopf
    • T. Claeson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 741 - 746

11. Highly Sensitive Electrometers Based on Single Cooper Pair Tunneling

    • A. B. Zorin
    • S. V. Lotkhov
    • J. Niemeyer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 747 - 755

12. The Josephson Effect in Nanoscale Tunnel Junctions

    • P. Joyez
    • D. Vion
    • D. Esteve

    OriginalPaper Pages: 757 - 766

13. Perspectives of an Experiment for Detecting Macroscopic Quantum Coherence

    • Giordano Diambrini Palazzi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 767 - 772

14. Experimental Evaluation of the Intrinsic Dissipation from Energy-Level Quantization in Josephson Devices

    • C. Cosmelli
    • P. Carelli
    • G. Torrioli

    OriginalPaper Pages: 773 - 781

15. Duality in the Quantum Dissipative Villain Model and Application to Mesoscopic Josephson Junction Circuits

    • G. Falci
    • U. Weiss

    OriginalPaper Pages: 783 - 787

16. Quantum Coherence of Charge States in the Single Electron Box

    • V. Bouchiat
    • D. Vion
    • M. H. Devoret

    OriginalPaper Pages: 789 - 797

17. A Coherent Two-Level System in a Superconducting Single-Electron Transistor Observed Through Photon-Assisted Cooper-Pair Tunneling

    • Y. Nakamura
    • J. S. Tsai

    OriginalPaper Pages: 799 - 806

18. Controlled Single-Cooper-Pair Charging Effects in a Small Josephson Junction Array

    • Caspar H. van der Wal
    • J. E. Mooij

    OriginalPaper Pages: 807 - 812

19. Observation of Coherent Charge-State Mixing in Asymmetric Bloch Transistors

    • D. J. Flees
    • S. Han
    • J. E. Lukens

    OriginalPaper Pages: 813 - 817

20. Tunneling in rf-SQUIDs and Tests of Quantum Mechanics at the Macroscopic Level

    • Tommaso Calarco
    • Marcello Cini
    • Roberto Onofrio

    OriginalPaper Pages: 819 - 823

21. Using Conditional Measurements to Combat Decoherence

    • M. Fortunato
    • G. Harel
    • G. Kurizki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 825 - 828

22. Traversal Time in Josephson Junctions

    • P. Fabeni
    • D. Mugnai
    • L. S. Schulman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 829 - 833

23. Hall Tunneling of Vortices in Superclean Superconductors

    • D. A. Gorokhov
    • G. Blatter

    OriginalPaper Pages: 835 - 837

24. Strong Nonequilibrium Coherent States in Mesoscopic Superconductor-Semiconductor-Superconductor Junctions

    • J. Kutchinsky
    • M. Wildt
    • P. E. Lindelof

    OriginalPaper Pages: 839 - 842

25. Two-Level System with a Noisy Hamiltonian

    • Hiromichi Nakazato
    • Saverio Pascazio

    OriginalPaper Pages: 843 - 849