Optical spin manipulation for minimal magnetic logic operations in metallic three-center magnetic clusters

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 18, 2009, Pages

  Hübner, Wolfgang ^a,b   Kersten, Sander ^a,c   Lefkidis, Georgios ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 67649410596     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.184431     Document Type: Article

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