Asymmetric quantum shot noise in quantum dots

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 13, 2004, Pages

  Engel, Hans Andreas ^a   Loss, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TUNNELING; HAMILTONIANS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CHARGE QUANTIZATION; FANO FACTOR; NOISE FREQUENCY; QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS;

SHOT NOISE;

EID: 19644365997     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.136602     Document Type: Article

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