Lifetime of vortices in two-dimensional easy-plane ferromagnets

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 8539-8542

  Dimitrov, D ^a   Wysin, G ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0004985195     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.53.8539     Document Type: Article

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