Unexpected features of branched flow through high-mobility two-dimensional electron gases

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 841-845

  Jura, M P ^a   Topinka, M A ^a,b   Urban, L ^c   Yazdani, A ^c   Shtrikman, H ^d   Pfeiffer, L N ^e   West, K W ^e   Goldhaber Gordon, D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^e LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SCATTERING; ELECTRON GAS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; TEMPERATURE;

COHERENT INTERFERENCE; DEFECT SCATTERING; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INJECTED ELECTRONS; LOW TEMPERATURES; QUANTUM COMPUTING; SPATIAL STRUCTURE;

TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON GAS;

EID: 36749087677     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys756     Document Type: Article

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