Self-consistent treatment of nonequilibrium spin torques in magnetic multilayers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1044301-10443017

  Shpiro, Asya ^a   Levy, Peter M ^a   Zhang, Shufeng ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PHYSICS; TRANSPORT KINETICS; VELOCITY;

EID: 0038079263     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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