How to detect the fourth-order cumulant of electrical noise

Joachim Ankerhold1, Hermann Grabert

  • 1Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.

Physical Review Letters
|December 31, 2005
PubMed

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