The quantum antidot electrometer: Direct observation of fractional charge

Journal of the Korean Physical Society

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 512-518

  Goldman, V J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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32. These our results are in stark disagreement with recent reports of shot noise power experiments in constrictions without antidots, which, interpreted as a measurement of fractional charge, show variations of q by factors of up to three and even six depending on all: v, It, and T. See, e.g., D. Glattli et al., Physica E 6, 22 (2000); T. Griffiths et al., cond-mat/00072664.