Shot noise of series quantum point contacts intercalating chaotic cavities

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 2333041-2333044

  Oberholzer, S ^a,d   Sukhorukov, E V ^b   Strunk, C ^c   Schonenberger C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; GAS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTION; NOISE; PREDICTION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037115983     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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