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Andreas W Schell1, Günter Kewes, Tobias Hanke

  • 1Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Physics, Newtonstrasse 15, D-12489 Berlin, Germany. andreas.schell@physik.hu-berlin.de

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