Current-driven magnetic rearrangements in spin-polarized point contacts

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 13, 2005, Pages

  Stamenova, Maria ^a   Sanvito, Stefano ^a   Todorov, Tchavdar N ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 29744433059     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.134407     Document Type: Article

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