Enhancement of quantum tunneling for excited states in ferromagnetic particles

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 529-535

  Liang, J ^a   Zhang, Y ^a   Muller Kirsten H ^a   Zhou, Jian Ge ^a   Zimmerschied, F ^a   Pu, F ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 0001198278     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.57.529     Document Type: Article

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