Competing magnetic anisotropies in atomic-scale junctions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Thiess, Alexander ^a   Mokrousov, Yuriy ^a   Heinze, Stefan ^b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

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EID: 77954823949     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.054433     Document Type: Article

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