Magnetic-field dependence of transport in normal and Andreev billiards: A classical interpretation of the averaged quantum behavior

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2005, Pages

  Fytas, Nikolaos G ^a   Diakonos, Fotis K ^a   Schmelcher, Peter ^b   Scheid, Matthias ^c   Lassl, Andreas ^c   Richter, Klaus ^c   Fagas, Giorgos ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

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EID: 33644940662     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.085336     Document Type: Article

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