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Baolian Cheng1, Thomas J T Kwan, Yi-Ming Wang

  • 1Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.

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