Imaging quasiparticle wave functions in quantum dots via tunneling spectroscopy

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 23, 2005, Pages

  Rontani, Massimo ^a   Molinari, Elisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

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EID: 28344436224     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.233106     Document Type: Article

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