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Tunneling and nonuniversality in continuum percolation systems

C Grimaldi1, I Balberg

  • 1LPM, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Station 17, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

Physical Review Letters
|April 12, 2006
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