Coulomb-blockade peak-spacing distribution: Interplay of temperature and spin

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 20, 2001, Pages

  Usaj, Gonzalo ^a   Baranger, Harold U ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; CALCULATION; ENERGY; ENTROPY; EXCITATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0035890717     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.201319     Document Type: Article

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