Metastability of free cobalt and iron clusters: A possible precursor to bulk ferromagnetism

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Xu, Xiaoshan ^a   Yin, Shuangye ^a   Moro, Ramiro ^a   Liang, Anthony ^a   Bowlan, John ^a   De Heer, Walt A ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK VALUE; HOMONUCLEAR; IRON CLUSTER; ITINERANT FERROMAGNETISM; LARGE SIZES; METASTABILITIES; POLARIZABILITIES; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; TWO-STATE;

COBALT; FERROMAGNETISM; IONIZATION POTENTIAL; MAGNETIC MOMENTS;

COBALT COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79961106252     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.057203     Document Type: Article

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