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F Célarié1, S Prades, D Bonamy

  • 1Laboratoire des Verres, UMR CNRS-UM2 5587, Université Montpellier 2, C.C. 69 Place Bataillon, F-34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.

Physical Review Letters
|March 14, 2003
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