Filtering and analyzing mobile qubit information via Rashba-Dresselhaus- Aharonov-Bohm interferometers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Aharony, Amnon ^a,d   Tokura, Yasuhiro ^b   Cohen, Guy Z ^a,d   Entin Wohlman, Ora ^a,d   Katsumoto, Shingo ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 79961220449     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.035323     Document Type: Article

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