Validity and breakdown of onsager symmetry in mesoscopic conductors interacting with unvironments

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Sánchez, David ^a   Kang, Kicheon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAS VOLTAGE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ASYMMETRY DEPENDENCE; MESOSCOPIC CONDUCTORS; ONSAGER SYMMETRY;

MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS;

EID: 38549150787     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.036806     Document Type: Article

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