Scanning microscopy of nuclear spin polarization via quantum Hall edge channels

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Nakajima, T ^a   Kobayashi, Y ^a   Komiyama, S ^a   Tsuboi, M ^a   MacHida, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

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EID: 77954873938     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.085322     Document Type: Article

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