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Driven tunneling: New possibilities for coherent and incoherent quantum transport

Thomas Dittrich, Peter Hänggi A, B. Oelschlägel, Ralf Utermann

Published Apr 6, 2008• 3 citations
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10.1007/3-540-59158-3_50

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