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We report ultra-low intrinsic magnetic damping in Co$_{\text{25}}$Fe$_{\text{75}}$ heterostructures, reaching the low $10^{-4}$ regime at room temperature. By using a broadband ferromagnetic resonance technique, we extracted the dynamic…
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We report on the dynamics of electron spins in n-doped CdTe layers that differs significantly from the expected response derived from the studies dedicated to electron spin relaxation in n-GaAs. At zero magnetic field, the electron spin…
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Recent theoretical and experimental work on solid He-4 has focused on vacancies, or other lattice defects and whether these can form a Bose-Einstein condensate within the solid. The earliest suggestion that this could happen was based on…
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