Coherence and partial coherence in interacting electron systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 17, 2001, Pages 3855-3858

  König, Jürgen ^a,b   Gefen, Yuval ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; FERMI LEVEL; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTERFEROMETERS; PROBABILITY; RESONANT TUNNELING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

AHARONOY-BOHM INTERFEROMETER; COHERENCE; FLUX-SENSITIVE CONDUCTANCE; PARTIAL COHERENCE; SPIN-FLIP PROCESS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037853051     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3855     Document Type: Article

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