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Orbital Effects of In-Plane Magnetic Fields Probed by Mesoscopic Conductance Fluctuations D. M. Zumb¨uhl,1 J. B. Miller,1, 2 C. M. Marcus,1 V. I. Fal’ko,3 T. Jungwirth,4, 5 and J. S. Harris, Jr.6 1Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 3 2Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 0 3Physics Department, Lancaster University, LA1 4YB Lancaster, United Kingdom 0 4Institute of Physics ASCR, Cukrovarnick´a 10, 162 53 Praha 6, Czech Republic 2 5 University of Texas at Austin, Physics Department, c 1 University Station C1600, Austin TX 78712-0264 e 6Departement of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 D We use the high sensitivity to magnetic flux of mesoscopic conductance fluctuations in large 4 quantum dots to investigate changes in the two-dimensional electron dispersion caused by an in- 2 plane magnetic field. In particular, changes in effective mass and the breaking of momentum reversal symmetry in the electron dispersion are extracted quantitatively from correlations of conductance ] fluctuations. New theory is presented, and good agreement between theory and experiment is found. l l a h PACS numbers: 73.23.Hk, 73.20.Fz, 73.50.Gr, 73.23.-b - s e A simplified view of transport in