Observation of the two-channel Kondo effect

Nature

Volumn 446, Issue 7132, 2007, Pages 167-171

  Potok, R M ^a,b,d   Rau, I G ^a   Shtrikman, Hadas ^c   Oreg, Yuval ^c   Goldhaber Gordon, D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^d ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES   (United States)

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ELECTRON; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PHASE TRANSITION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NANOENGINEERING; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM YIELD; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 33947127754     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05556     Document Type: Article

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