Noise of a single-electron transistor in the regime of large quantum fluctuations of island charge out of equilibrium

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Utsumi, Yasuhiro ^a   Imamura, Hiroshi ^a   Hayashi, Masahiko ^a   Ebisawa, Hiromichi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MODEL; PHENOMENOLOGY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR; THEORY;

EID: 0037437980     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.035317     Document Type: Article

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