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Pavol Kalinay1, Jerome K Percus

  • 1Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravska cesta 9, 84511, Bratislava, Slovakia.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|October 15, 2008
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