Nonalgebraic length dependence of transmission through a chain of barriers with a Lévy spacing distribution

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Beenakker, C W J ^a   Groth, C W ^a   Akhmerov, A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 60349108346     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.024204     Document Type: Article

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