Detection of quantum noise from an electrically driven two-level system

Science

Volumn 301, Issue 5630, 2003, Pages 203-206

  Deblock, Richard ^a,b   Onac, Eugen ^a   Gurevich, Leonid ^a   Kouwenhoven, Leo P ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OSCILLATIONS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

MESOSCOPIC DEVICES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

NOISE; SPECTRUM;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; NOISE; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPECTRUM;

EID: 0037815136     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1084175     Document Type: Article

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