Selection-rule blockade and rectification in quantum heat transport

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 18, 2009, Pages

  Ojanen, Teemu ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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EID: 73649090794     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180301     Document Type: Article

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