Skyrmion confinement in ultrathin film nanostructures in the presence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 88, Issue 18, 2013, Pages

  Rohart, S ^a   Thiaville, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

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EID: 84888340721     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.184422     Document Type: Article

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