Conductance quantization and magnetoresistance in magnetic point contacts

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1003-1006

  Imamura, Hiroshi ^a   Kobayashi, Nobuhiko ^b   Takahashi, Saburo ^a   Maekawa, Sadamichi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

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EID: 0000512553     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.1003     Document Type: Article

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