Collective modes and skyrmion excitations in graphene SU (4) quantum Hall ferromagnets

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Yang, Kun ^a   Das Sarma, S ^b   MacDonald, A H ^c  

^a Florida State University   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 33747872060     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.74.075423     Document Type: Article

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