Magnon dark modes and gradient memory

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Xufeng ^a   Zou, Chang Ling ^a,b   Zhu, Na ^a   Marquardt, Florian ^c,d   Jiang, Liang ^a   Tang, Hong X ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GARNET; IRON; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; YTTRIUM;

MEMORY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PHOTON;

EID: 84947562383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9914     Document Type: Article

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