Crossover from thermal hopping to quantum tunneling in (formula presented)

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 6309-6316

  Kou, S P ^a   Liang, J Q ^a   Zhang, Y B ^a   Wang, X B ^b   Pu, F C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 4244084438     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.6309     Document Type: Article

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