Size effects in the exchange coupling between two electrons confined in quantum wire quantum dots

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Zhang, L X ^a   Melnikov, D V ^a   Agarwal, S ^a   Leburton, J P ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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EID: 47349086763     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.035418     Document Type: Article

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