Stability of single skyrmionic bits

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Hagemeister, J ^a   Romming, N ^a   Von Bergmann, K ^a   Vedmedenko, E Y ^a   Wiesendanger, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PARTICLE MOTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84944396889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9455     Document Type: Article

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