Stabilizing the magnetic moment of single holmium atoms by symmetry

Nature

Volumn 503, Issue 7475, 2013, Pages 242-246

  Miyamachi, Toshio ^a,b   Schuh, Tobias ^a   Märkl, Tobias ^a   Bresch, Christopher ^a   Balashov, Timofey ^a   Stöhr, Alexander ^a,c   Karlewski, Christian ^a   André, Stephan ^a   Marthaler, Michael ^a   Hoffmann, Martin ^d,e   Geilhufe, Matthias ^d   Ostanin, Sergey ^d   Hergert, Wolfram ^e   Mertig, Ingrid ^d,e   Schön, Gerd ^a   Ernst, Arthur ^d,f   Wulfhekel, Wulf ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^e MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLMIUM;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; COUPLING; DATA; SYMMETRY;

ARTICLE; ATOM; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON; ENVIRONMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; NATURAL SCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPA TREATMENT; VIBRATION;

EID: 84887575075     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12759     Document Type: Article

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