2 N ov 2 01 6 Imaging the Spin Texture of a Skyrmion Under Ambient Conditions Using an Atomic - Sized Sensor
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Y. Dovzhenko†,1 F. Casola†,1, 2 S. Schlotter,3, 4 T. X. Zhou,1, 3 F. Büttner,4 R. L. Walsworth,2, 1 G. S. D. Beach,4 and A. Yacoby∗,1 Department of Physics, Harvard University, 17 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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