Coulomb blockade and transport in a chain of one-dimensional quantum dots

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Fogler, Michael M ^a   Malinin, Sergey V ^b   Nattermann, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COULOMB BLOCKADE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS;

IMPURITY DISTRIBUTION STATISTICS; INTRINSIC ELECTRONIC PARAMETERS; POWER LAWS; RANDOM IMPURITIES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 33748658293     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.096601     Document Type: Article

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