Coulomb scattering cross section in a two-dimensional electron gas and production of entangled electrons

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Saraga, D S ^a   Altshuler, B L ^b,c   Loss, Daniel ^a   Westervelt, R M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

ACOUSTICS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; COLLISIONALLY ACTIVATED DISSOCIATION; ELECTRON; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; GAS ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; OPTICAL ROTATION; PHASE TRANSITION; PHONON; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 15744362273     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.045338     Document Type: Article

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