Local moment formation in quantum point contacts

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Hirose, Kenji ^a   Meir, Yigal ^b,c,d   Wingreen, Ned S ^b  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COULOMB BLOCKADE; GROUND STATE; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; POINT CONTACTS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES;

QUANTUM POINT CONTACTS; SPIN DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037449895     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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