Chaos and interactions: From nuclei to quantum dots

Quantum dots are conducting devices in which electrons are confined to a submicron region. We focus on dots whose single-electron dynamics are chaotic. The observed conduction phenomena and statistical properties of such dots reflect the presence of one-body chaos, quantum interference and interactions. We discuss the statistical properties of these dots and compare them with the predictions of random-matrix theory, originally introduced to describe the statistical properties of compound nuclei.