Spin transport in mesoscopic rings with inhomogeneous spin-orbit coupling

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 15, 2007, Pages

  Tserkovnyak, Yaroslav ^a,b   Brataas, Arne ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

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EID: 35648976174     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.155326     Document Type: Article

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