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Definition and measurement of the electrical and thermal resistances

H.- L. Engquist and P. W. Anderson
Phys. Rev. B 24, 1151(R) – Published 15 July 1981
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An ideal potentiometer and a thermometer are defined in order to show the experimental situations leading to Landauer's formula for the electrical resistance and to the corresponding expression for the thermal resistance.

  • Received 17 April 1981

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.24.1151

©1981 American Physical Society

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H.- L. Engquist* and P. W. Anderson

  • Joseph Henry Laboratories of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544

  • *On leave from the Department of Theoretical Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden.

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Vol. 24, Iss. 2 — 15 July 1981

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