Measuring the transmission phase of a quantum dot in a closed interferometer

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 15, 2003, Pages

  Aharony, Amnon ^a   Entin Wohlman, Ora ^a,b   Imry, Yoseph ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; INTERFEROMETERS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CLOSED INTERFEROMETERS; TRANSMISSION PHASE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 0037864092     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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