Two-channel Kondo effect in a modified single electron transistor

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 13, 2003, Pages

  Oreg, Yuval ^a   Goldhaber Gordon, David ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FERMI LEVEL; GROUND STATE; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; TRANSISTORS;

ELECTRON DROPLETS; KONDO EFFECT; SCHRIEFFER-WOLF TRANSFORMATION; SINGLE ELECTRON TRANSISTOR;

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EID: 0142223312     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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