Conductance of a quantum point contact in the presence of spin-orbit interaction

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 91, Issue 10 I, 2002, Pages 6545-6552

  Zhu, Shi Liang ^a,b   Wang, Z D ^a,c   Hu, Lian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

0.7 STRUCTURE; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; GREEN'S FUNCTION TECHNIQUE; MESOSCOPIC STRUCTURE; MESOSCOPICS; MULTIPLE REFLECTIONS; QUANTUM POINT CONTACT; RASHBA SPIN ORBIT INTERACTION; SPIN ORBIT INTERACTIONS; SPIN-DEPENDENT CONDUCTANCE; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS;

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

POINT CONTACTS;

EID: 0037095003     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1469202     Document Type: Article

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