Pair tunneling through single molecules

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Koch, Jens ^a   Raikh, M E ^b   Von Oppen, Felix ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; GROUND STATE;

GATE-CONTROLLED CURRENT; PAIR TUNNELING; POLARONIC ENERGY SHIFT;

POLARONS;

EID: 33144481752     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.056803     Document Type: Article

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