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Thomas Brettschneider1, Giovanni Volpe, Laurent Helden

  • 1Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|May 24, 2011
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