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Tomasz Srokowski1

  • 1Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, PL-31-342 Kraków, Poland.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|June 13, 2009
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