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Ballistic Electron Transport
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Abstract
Some years ago, van Wees et al. [1] and Wharam et al. [2] found that the conductance of electrons through a narrow channel is quantized in the unit of 2e 2/h, where e is the absolute value of the electronic charge and h is the Planck constant.
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Hall Effect Gate Voltage Narrow Channel Quantum Wire Schrodinger Equation
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