Shot noise and spin-orbit coherent control of entangled and spin-polarized electrons

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 23, 2005, Pages

  Egues, J Carlos ^a,b   Burkard, Guido ^a   Saraga, D S ^a   Schliemann, John ^a   Loss, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

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EID: 29744443279     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.235326     Document Type: Article

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