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D A Wisniacki1, A J Roncaglia

  • 1Departamento de Física, FCEyN, UBA and IFIBA, CONICET, Pabellón 1, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|June 18, 2013
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