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Part B: Condensed Matter Physics

Lateral shift in a spin-orbit-coupling modulated magnetic-barrier nanostructure

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Pages 1018-1029 | Received 11 Jul 2017, Accepted 03 Nov 2017, Published online: 15 Jan 2018

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