Fully relativistic ab initio treatment of spin-flip scattering caused by impurities

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Gradhand, Martin ^a,b   Fedorov, Dmitry V ^b   Zahn, Peter ^b   Mertig, Ingrid ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 77954813715     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.020403     Document Type: Article

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