Magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy of transition-metal thin films: A nonperturbative theory

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 2594-2604

  Lessard, A ^a   Moos, T ^a   Hubner W ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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EID: 0001534534     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.56.2594     Document Type: Article

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