High-Field Measurements of Electron Decoherence Time in Metallic Nanowires: Switching off Magnetic Impurity Spins

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Mohanty, P ^a   Webb, R A ^b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; ELECTRON SCATTERING; FERMI LIQUIDS; GRAPH THEORY; ION IMPLANTATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETORESISTANCE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHONONS; QUANTUM THEORY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CONDUCTANCE FLUCTUATION MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON DECOHERENCE TIME; ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTION; GOLD NANOWIRE; KONDO EFFECT; LOW-FIELD WEAK LOCALIZATION MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC IMPURITY SPIN; MAGNETIC SCATTERING;

GOLD;

EID: 0141564670     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.066604     Document Type: Article

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