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Hong Liu1, Hirosi Ooguri, Bogdan Stoica

  • 1Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

Physical Review Letters
|June 11, 2013
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