Breaking of phase symmetry in nonequilibrium Aharonov-Bohm oscillations through a quantum dot

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Puller, Vadim ^a   Meir, Yigal ^a   Sigrist, Martin ^b   Ensslin, Klaus ^b   Ihn, Thomas ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 69549115989     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.035416     Document Type: Article

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