Quantum Dot in the Kondo Regime Coupled to Superconductors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 25, 2002, Pages

  Buitelaar, M R ^a   Nussbaumer, T ^a   Schonenberger C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ENERGY GAP; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TEMPERATURE;

ELECTRON SPIN; KONDO EFFECT;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 0037122295     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.256801     Document Type: Article

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