Quantum transport enhancement by time-reversal symmetry breaking

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zimborás, Zoltán ^a,b   Faccin, Mauro ^a   Kádár, Zoltán ^a   Whitfield, James D ^a,c   Lanyon, Ben P ^d   Biamonte, Jacob ^a,e  

^a ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c University of Vienna Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology   (Austria)

^d ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; QUANTUM THEORY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUANTUM THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84881607769     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02361     Document Type: Article

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