Spin excitations and correlations in scanning tunneling spectroscopy

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Ternes, Markus ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

correlations; Kondo effect; spin excitations; spin flip spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

KONDO EFFECT; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPIN DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE;

CORRELATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL CONDUCTANCES; LOW-TEMPERATURE SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES; PERTURBATION THEORY; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; SPIN EXCITATION; SPIN FLIP; TUNNELING TRANSPORTS;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 84944328577     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/17/6/063016     Document Type: Review

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