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Sungchul Kwon1, Yup Kim

  • 1Department of Physics and Research Institute of Basic Sciences, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, Korea.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|February 21, 2006
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