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Kouki Totsuka1, Makoto Tomita

  • 1Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Shizuoka University, 836 Ohya, Shizuoka, 422-8529 Japan.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
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