Magnetic proximity effect at the molecular scale: First-principles calculations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 19, 2008, Pages

  Liu, Dongping ^a   Hu, Yibin ^b   Guo, Hong ^b   Han, X F ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 57149128229     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.193307     Document Type: Article

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