Nonuniversal conductance steps in mesoscopic quantum wires

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 12248-12251

  Houshangpour, Kamran ^a   Maschke, Klaus ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 1942514283     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.12248     Document Type: Article

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