Tunnelling between the edges of two lateral quantum Hall systems

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6765, 2000, Pages 59-61

  Kang, W ^a,b   Stormer, H L ^b,c   Pfelffer, L N ^b   Baldwln, K W ^b   West, K W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; ENERGY; MAGNETIC FIELD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 0034610786     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/47436     Document Type: Article

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