Theory of electric-field-controlled surface ferromagnetic transition in metals

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Ovchinnikov, Igor V ^a   Wang, Kang L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 59249098299     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.020402     Document Type: Article

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