Nanowire device slips ahead in race to a primary standard for current

A phenomenon known as quantum phase slip has been used to generate a current by moving pairs of electrons through an ultrathin wire. The feat is good news for efforts to pin down the standard unit of current. Quantum current standard for the ampere.

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Veröffentlicht in:	Nature (London) 2022-08, Vol.608 (7921), p.40-41
1. Verfasser:	Kataoka, Masaya
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