Statistical significance of conductance quantization

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 2541-2544

  Bascones, E ^a   Gomez Santos G ^a   Saenz J ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NICOLÁS CABRERA   (Spain)

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EID: 0000341843     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.57.2541     Document Type: Article

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