Switching of electrical current by spin precession in the first Landau level of an inverted-gap semiconductor

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 19, 2009, Pages

  Akhmerov, A R ^a   Groth, C W ^a   Tworzydlo J ^b   Beenakker, C W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

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EID: 77954725529     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.195320     Document Type: Article

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