Stripe width and nonlocal domain walls in the two-dimensional dipolar frustrated Ising ferromagnet

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Vindigni, Alessandro ^a   Saratz, Niculin ^a   Portmann, Oliver ^a   Pescia, Danilo ^a   Politi, Paolo ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ISTITUTO DEI SISTEMI COMPLESSI   (Italy)

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EID: 41549125939     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.092414     Document Type: Article

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