Cotunneling through quantum dots coupled to magnetic leads: Zero-bias anomaly for noncollinear magnetic configurations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 15, 2007, Pages

  Weymann, Ireneusz ^a   Barnaś, Józef ^a,b  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

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EID: 34047269929     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.155308     Document Type: Article

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