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Jason W Middleton1, André Longtin, Jan Benda

  • 1Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, 150 Louis Pasteur Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5. jmidd046@uottawa.ca

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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