Coulomb screening in mesoscopic noise: A kinetic approach

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 12, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 5251-5273

  Green, Frederick ^a   Das, Mukunda P ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTROSTATICS; KINETIC THEORY OF GASES;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; COULOMB SCREENING; FERMI LIQUIDS; METALLIC ELECTRON GAS;

ELECTRON GAS;

EID: 0033719446     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/12/24/315     Document Type: Article

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