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K L Lancaster1, M Sherlock, J S Green

  • 1STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Oxon, United Kingdom.

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