Effect of crystalline disorder on quantum tunneling in the single-molecule magnet Mn12 benzoate

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Carbonera, C ^a   Luis, F ^a   Campo, J ^a   Sanchez Marcos J ^a   Camon A ^a   Chaboy, J ^a   Ruiz Molina, D ^b   Imaz, I ^b   Van Slageren, J ^c,d   Dengler, S ^d   Gonzalez M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b CATALAN INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY ICN2   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^e INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

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EID: 77954791041     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.014427     Document Type: Article

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