Conductance dip in the Kondo regime of linear arrays of quantum dots

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Busser C A ^a   Moreo, Adriana ^a   Dagotto, Elbio ^a  

^a Florida State University   (United States)

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ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON; FERMION; LINEAR SYSTEM; LOW TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHENOMENOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 37649030324     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.035402     Document Type: Article

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