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Nucleation times in the two-dimensional Ising model

Kevin Brendel1, G T Barkema, Henk van Beijeren

  • 1Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|May 21, 2005
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