Three-terminal transport through a quantum dot in the Kondo regime: Conductance, dephasing, and current-current correlations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Sánchez, David ^a,b   López, Rosa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; LEAD;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC MODEL; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON; GEOMETRY; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NOISE; QUANTUM DOT;

EID: 15544374762     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.035315     Document Type: Article

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