Electric-field-induced nuclear-spin flips mediated by enhanced sping-orbit coupling

Nature Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 307-310

  Sugimoto, Toshiki ^a   Fukutani, Katsuyuki ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONIC STATES; ISOMERS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MOLECULES;

AMORPHOUS SOLID WATER; ELECTRIC FIELD INDUCED; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; INHOMOGENEOUS ELECTRIC FIELDS; INHOMOGENEOUS MAGNETIC FIELD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIZATION; NUCLEAR SPIN MODIFICATIONS; NUCLEAR-SPIN CONVERSION;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 79953673852     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1883     Document Type: Article

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