Macroscopic quantum tunneling of magnetization of single ferrimagnetic nanoparticles of barium ferrite

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 79, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 4014-4017

  Wernsdorfer, W ^a   Bonet Orozco, E ^a   Hasselbach, K ^b   Benoit, A ^b   Mailly, D ^b   Kubo, O ^c   Nakano, H ^c   Barbara, B ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

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EID: 5244244641     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.4014     Document Type: Article

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