Longitudinal conductance of mesoscopic Hall samples with arbitrary disorder and periodic modulations [66]

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 1-12

  Zhou, Chenggang ^a,c   Berciu, Mona ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PROBABILITY;

EID: 11244349054     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.165318     Document Type: Article

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