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The Basis of Nanomagnetism

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The exchange length and the magnetic domain wall width are some of the characteristic lengths that are more relevant to the magnetic properties. The shape of the density of electronic states curve is also dependent on the dimensionality of the samples.

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Guimarães, A.P. (2017). The Basis of Nanomagnetism. In: Principles of Nanomagnetism. NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59409-5_1

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