Asymmetric nonlinear conductance of quantum dots with broken inversion symmetry

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 23, 2000, Pages 15914-15926

  Linke, H ^a   Sheng, W ^a   Svensson, A ^a   Lofgren A ^a   Christensson, L ^a   Xu, H ^a   Omling, P ^a   Lindelof, P ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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EID: 0000334761     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.61.15914     Document Type: Article

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