Stochastic path integral formulation of full counting statistics

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 20, 2003, Pages

  Pilgram, S ^a   Jordan, A N ^a   Sukhorukov, E V ^a   Buttiker M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALCULATIONS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GRAPH THEORY; HAMILTONIANS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

CHAOTIC CAVITY; CHAOTIC ELECTRON DYNAMICS; COUNTING STATISTICS; SADDLE-POINT APPROXIMATION; STOCHASTIC PATH INTEGRAL FORMULATION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037789467     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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