Spin-flop transition in uniaxial antiferromagnets: Magnetic phases, reorientation effects, and multidomain states

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Bogdanov, A N ^a,b   Zhuravlev, A V ^b   Rossler U K ^a  

^a IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b DONETSK PHYSICOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Ukraine)

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EID: 33947532763     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.094425     Document Type: Article

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