Integrable theory of quantum transport in chaotic cavities

Vladimir Al Osipov1, Eugene Kanzieper

  • 1Department of Applied Mathematics, H.I.T.-Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel.

Physical Review Letters
|November 13, 2008
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