Conditional statistics of electron transport in interacting nanoscale conductors

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 243-247

  Sukhorukov, Eugene V ^a   Jordan, Andrew N ^b   Gustavsson, Simon ^c   Leturcq, Renaud ^c   Ihn, Thomas ^c   Ensslin, Klaus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SHOT NOISE;

CONDITIONAL STATISTICS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FLUCTUATING CHARGE; NANOSCALE CONDUCTORS; ON CHIP MEASUREMENTS; QUANTUM POINT CONTACT; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL MODELING;

POINT CONTACTS;

EID: 34047188427     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys564     Document Type: Article

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