Cooper pair splitter realized in a two-quantum-dot Y-junction

Nature

Volumn 461, Issue 7266, 2009, Pages 960-963

  Hofstetter, L ^a   Csonka, S ^a,b   Nygard J ^c   Schonenberger C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; QUANTUM DOT;

COPPER; ELECTRON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID STATE; SUPERCONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 70350072549     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08432     Document Type: Article

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