Current and current fluctuations in quantum shuttles

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Jauho, Antti Pekka ^a   Flindt, Christian ^a   Novotný, Tomáš ^a,b   Donarini, Andrea ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Current fluctuations; Micromechanical devices; Nanoelectronics; Quantum interference devices; Quantum interference phenomena; Reviews; Wigner distribution

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CURRENT FLUCTUATIONS; NANOELECTRONICS; WIGNER DISTRIBUTION;

QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES;

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 28144456005     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1949207     Document Type: Review

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