Macroscopic quantum tunneling of ferromagnetic domain walls

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 56, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 8129-8137

  Braun, Hans Benjamin ^a   Kyriakidis, Jordan ^b   Loss, Daniel ^b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0001157681     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.56.8129     Document Type: Article

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