Nonequilibrium spintronic transport through an artificial Kondo impurity: Conductance, magnetoresistance, and shot noise

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2003, Pages

  López, Rosa ^a   Sánchez, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; HAMILTONIANS; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETORESISTANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SHOT NOISE; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ARTIFICIAL KONDO IMPURITY; NONEQUILIBRIUM SPINTRONIC TRANSPORT; SPIN FLIP SCATTERING;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037625899     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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