Inelastic transport in the Coulomb blockade regime within a nonequilibrium atomic limit

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Galperin, Michael ^a,d   Nitzan, Abraham ^b   Ratner, Mark A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 52949141896     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.125320     Document Type: Article

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