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Mokhtar Adda-Bedia1, Rodrigo E Arias, Eran Bouchbinder

  • 1Ecole Normale Supérieure, Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6, France.

Physical Review Letters
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