Spin-flip hot spots in ultrathin films of monovalent metals: Enhancement and anisotropy of the Elliott-Yafet parameter

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 88, Issue 14, 2013, Pages

  Long, Nguyen H ^a   Mavropoulos, Phivos ^a   Heers, Swantje ^a   Zimmermann, Bernd ^a   Mokrousov, Yuriy ^a   Blügel, Stefan ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

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EID: 84885828628     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.144408     Document Type: Article

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