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Controlling electron spins strongly coupled to magnetic and nuclear spins in solid state systems is an important challenege in the field of spintronics and quantum computation. We show here that electron droplets with no net spin in…
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We argue that elastic interactions between ions in different valence states can play an essential role in stabilization of stripes(or 2D "sheets")in doped oxides. These interactions are in general long-range and anisotropic (attractive in…
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