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Martin F Melhus1, Igor S Aranson, Dmitri Volfson

  • 1Department of Physics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA.

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