Electric-field control of the chiral magnetism of multiferroic MnWO4 as seen via polarized neutron diffraction

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Finger, T ^a   Senff, D ^a   Schmalzl, K ^b   Schmidt, W ^b   Regnault, L P ^c   Becker, P ^a   Bohaty L ^a   Braden, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

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EID: 77954798334     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.054430     Document Type: Article

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