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Science 19 May 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5776, pp. 1005 - 1006
DOI: 10.1126/science.1127387
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APPLIED PHYSICS:
Assembly and Probing of Spin Chains of Finite Size

Harald Brune

Understanding magnetic ordering at the atomic scale is essential for spintronic technology. A linear chain of manganese atoms has been created for studying one-dimensional systems.

The author is at the Institut de Physique des Nanostructures, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. E-mail: harald.brune{at}epfl.ch

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