Local densities, distribution functions, and wave-function correlations for spatially resolved shot noise at nanocontacts

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 2375-2390

  Gramespacher, Thomas ^a   Büttiker, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0001587147     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.60.2375     Document Type: Article

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