Magnetic friction of a nanometer-sized tip scanning a magnetic surface: Dynamics of a classical spin system with direct exchange and dipolar interactions between the spins

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Fusco, C ^a   Wolf, D E ^a   Nowak, U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 44349128470     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.174426     Document Type: Article

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