Switchable hardening of a ferromagnet at fixed temperature

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2797-2800

  Silevitch, D M ^a   Aeppli, G ^b   Rosenbaum, T F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Domain reversal; Ferromagnetism; Magnetic storage; Quantum tunneling; Random fields

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL;

ARTICLE; INFORMATION STORAGE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

FERRIC COMPOUNDS; HARDNESS; QUANTUM THEORY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77649311450     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0910575107     Document Type: Article

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