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Bibliographic reference
Vila, Laurent ; Darques, Michael ; Encinas, Armando ; Ebels, Ursula ; George, Jean-Marie ; et. al. Magnetic vortices in nanowires with transverse easy axis. In: Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics, Vol. 79, no. 17 (2009)
