Partially coherent tunneling through a series of barriers: Inelastic scattering versus pure dephasing

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 1-5

  Li, Xin Qi ^a,b,c   Yan, YiJing ^a,c  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 85038288109     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.65.155326     Document Type: Article

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