Persistent Spin Currents in Mesoscopic Heisenberg Rings

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Schütz, Florian ^a   Kollar, Marcus ^a   Kopietz, Peter ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ENERGY GAP; FERMIONS; GROUND STATE; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIZATION; QUANTUM THEORY;

ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENT; GYROMAGNETIC FACTOR; LEADING-ORDER SPIN-WAVE THEORY; MAGNETIZATION CURRENT; MESOSCOPIC HEISENBERG RINGS; SPIN CURRENTS; SPIN-WAVE EXCITATION;

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0042208340     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.017205     Document Type: Article

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