Observation of "partial coherence" in an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer with a quantum dot

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 17, 2004, Pages

  Aikawa, Hisashi ^a   Kobayashi, Kensuke ^a   Sano, Akira ^a   Katsumoto, Shingo ^a   Iye, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COHERENT LIGHT; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; GATES (TRANSISTOR); INTERFEROMETERS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

AHARONOV-BOHM (AB) INTERFEROMETER; GATE VOLTAGES; PARTIAL COHERENCE; QUANTUM DEPHASING;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 2942605079     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.176802     Document Type: Article

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