Tunneling through molecules and quantum dots: Master-equation approaches

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 19, 2008, Pages

  Timm, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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EID: 43949115940     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.195416     Document Type: Article

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