Transport spectroscopy of kondo quantum dots coupled by RKKY interaction

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2005, Pages

  Vavilov, Maxim G ^a,c   Glazman, Leonid I ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM COMPUTING; SPIN STATES; TRANSPORT SPECTROSCOPY; TRIPLET STATE;

CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; FERMIONS; GROUND STATE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SPECTROSCOPY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 18244408237     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.086805     Document Type: Article

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