Chapter 5 Exchange Anisotropy

Contemporary Concepts of Condensed Matter Science

Volumn 1, Issue C, 2006, Pages 115-152

  Berkowitz, A E ^a   Kodama, R H ^a  

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DOI: 10.1016/S1572-0934(05)01005-X     Document Type: Review

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