Switching probabilities for single-domain magnetic particles

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 18, 2005, Pages

  Grinstein, G ^a   Koch, R H ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 33644525930     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.184427     Document Type: Article

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