One-way transparency of four-coloured spin-wave excitations in multiferroic materials

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Kezsmarki I ^a,b   Szaller, D ^a   Bordacs S ^c   Kocsis, V ^a,d   Tokunaga, Y ^d   Taguchi, Y ^d   Murakawa, H ^d   Tokura, Y ^c,d   Engelkamp, H ^e   Room T ^f   Nagel, U ^f  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science   (Japan)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS AND BIOPHYSICS   (Estonia)

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EID: 84893875503     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4203     Document Type: Article

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