Decoherence due to contacts in ballistic nanostructures

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Knezevic, I ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

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EID: 41449117259     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.125301     Document Type: Article

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