Coulomb staircase and total spin in quantum dots

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 10683-10686

  Akera, Hiroshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0001626183     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.60.10683     Document Type: Article

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