Impact of phonons on quantum phase transitions in nanorings of coupled quantum dots

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Bâldea, Ioan ^a,b,c   Köppel, Horst ^a   Cederbaum, Lorenz S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF SPACE SCIENCES   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE TRANSITION; PHONON; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 1642379399     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.69.075307     Document Type: Article

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