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Shot noise in mesoscopic conductors

Yaroslav M. Blanter, +1 more
- 01 Sep 2000 - 
- Vol. 336, Iss: 1, pp 1-166
TLDR
Theoretical and experimental work concerned with dynamic fluctuations has developed into a very active and fascinating subfield of mesoscopic physics as discussed by the authors, which can be used to obtain information on a system which is not available through conductance measurements.
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This article is published in Physics Reports.The article was published on 2000-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2086 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Shot noise & Quantum noise.

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