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D Pagel1, A Alvermann, H Fehske

  • 1Institut für Physik, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, 17487 Greifswald, Germany.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|February 16, 2013
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