Parity effects in 120 spin spirals

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Menzel, Matthias ^a   Kubetzka, Andre ^a   Von Bergmann, Kirsten ^a   Wiesendanger, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 84894426151     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.047204     Document Type: Article

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25. The small residual magnetization suggests that the simulation time was slightly too short.