Quantum tunneling of magnetization in ultrasmall half-metallic V 3 O 4 quantum dots: Displaying quantum superparamagnetic state

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Xiao, Chong ^a   Zhang, Jiajia ^a   Xu, Jie ^a   Tong, Wei ^b   Cao, Boxiao ^a   Li, Kun ^a   Pan, Bicai ^a   Su, Haibin ^c   Xie, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

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EID: 84868271251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00755     Document Type: Article

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