Effects of different geometries on the conductance, shot noise, and tunnel magnetoresistance of double quantum dots

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Weymann, Ireneusz ^a,b  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

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EID: 47749111368     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.045310     Document Type: Article

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