Rashba spin-orbit interaction and shot noise for spin-polarized and entangled electrons

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 176401/1-176401/4

  Egues, J Carlos ^a,b   Burkard, Guido ^a   Loss, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); GEOMETRY; GROUND STATE; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OSCILLATIONS; SHOT NOISE;

FANO FACTORS; RASHBA SPIN-ORBIT INTERACTION; SPIN TRANSFER OPERATOR;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 0037152748     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.176401     Document Type: Article

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