Nonadiabatic Landau-Zener tunneling in Fe8 molecular nanomagnets

Europhysics Letters

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 552-558

  Wernsdorfer, W ^a   Sessoli, R ^b   Caneschi, A ^b   Gatteschi, D ^b   Cornia, A ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

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EID: 0034636220     PISSN: 02955075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2000-00305-x     Document Type: Article

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