Engineering a Spin-Orbital Magnetic Insulator by Tailoring Superlattices

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 114, Issue 24, 2015, Pages

  Matsuno, J ^a,f   Ihara, K ^b   Yamamura, S ^b   Wadati, H ^b   Ishii, K ^c   Shankar, V V ^d   Kee, Hae Young ^d,e   Takagi, H ^a,b  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

^f RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science   (Japan)

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EID: 84934299932     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.247209     Document Type: Article

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