Spin-polarized currents through interacting quantum wires with nonmagnetic leads

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Birkholz, J E ^a   Meden, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 61949377463     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.085420     Document Type: Article

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