Possibility of an electromechanical which-path interferometer

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2001, Pages

  Armour, A D ^a   Blencowe, M P ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; INTERFEROMETER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MECHANICS; PHYSICS; RADIOFREQUENCY;

EID: 0034905885     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.035311     Document Type: Article

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