On the Mott formula for the thermopower of non-interacting electrons in quantum point contacts

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 3879-3884

  Lunde, Anders Mathias ^a   Flensberg, Karsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; GATES (TRANSISTOR); INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; QUANTUM THEORY; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

LANDAUER FORMULA; QUANTUM POINT CONTACTS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOPOWER;

POINT CONTACTS;

EID: 21044443004     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/17/25/014     Document Type: Article

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