Oscillations of the orbital magnetic moment due to d-band quantum well states.

@article{Dabrowski2014OscillationsOT,
  title={Oscillations of the orbital magnetic moment due to d-band quantum well states.},
  author={Maciej Da̧browski and Thiago R. F. Peixoto and Mateusz Pazgan and Aimo Winkelmann and M. Cinal and Tomohiro Nakagawa and Yasumasa Takagi and Toshihiko Yokoyama and Francesco Bisio and Uwe Dr Bauer and Fikret Yildiz and Marek Przybylski and J urgen Kirschner},
  journal={Physical review letters},
  year={2014},
  volume={113 6},
  pages={
          067203
        }
}
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