Distinction of nuclear spin states with the scanning tunneling microscope

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 17, 2013, Pages

  Natterer, Fabian Donat ^a   Patthey, François ^a   Brune, Harald ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS PHASE VALUE; MOMENT OF INERTIA; NUCLEAR SPIN STATE; NUCLEAR SPINS; PHYSISORBED; ROTATIONAL EXCITATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ISOTOPES; MICROSCOPES;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 84886801956     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.175303     Document Type: Article

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