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E L Gurevich1, A W Liehr, Sh Amiranashvili

  • 1Institut für Angewandte Physik, Corrensstrasse 2/4, D-48149 Muenster, Germany. gurevich@uni-muenster.de

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|April 20, 2004
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