Local current distribution and hot spots in the integer quantum Hall regime

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 20, 2006, Pages

  Dubi, Yonatan ^a   Meir, Yigal ^a   Avishai, Yshai ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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EID: 33750994606     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.74.205314     Document Type: Article

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