Electronic states in a magnetic quantum-dot molecule: Instabilities and spontaneous symmetry breaking

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Zhang, Wei ^a,b   Dong, Tianming ^a   Govorov, Alexander O ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS AND COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS   (China)

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EID: 34547965904     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.075319     Document Type: Article

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