Suppression of standing spin waves in low-dimensional ferromagnets

Andrea Taroni1, Anders Bergman, Lars Bergqvist

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, 751 20 Uppsala, Sweden. andrea.taroni@physics.uu.se

Physical Review Letters
|August 16, 2011
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