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B Dietz1, B Mössner, T Papenbrock

  • 1Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|June 4, 2008
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