Charge fractionalization in quantum wires
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HADAR STEINBERG1, GILAD BARAK1, AMIR YACOBY1,2*, LOREN N. PFEIFFER3, KEN W. WEST3, BERTRAND I. HALPERIN2 AND KARYN LE HUR4 Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, 700 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974, USA Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA *e-mail: [email protected]
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