Conductance suppression due to correlated electron transport in coupled double quantum dots

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 16906-16912

  Toth G ^a   Orlov, A ^a   Amlani, Islamshah ^a   Lent, C ^a   Bernstein, G ^a   Snider, G ^a  

^a 236 Hesburgh Center for International Studies   (United States)

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EID: 0013368680     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.60.16906     Document Type: Article

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