Quantum Interference Control of Ballistic Pure Spin Currents in Semiconductors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 4-

  Stevens, Martin J ^a   Smirl, Arthur L ^a   Bhat, R D R ^b   Najmaie, Ali ^b   Sipe, J E ^b   van Driel, H M ^b  

^a Laboratory for Photonics Quantum Electronics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 85038317833     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.136603     Document Type: Article

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