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A Aubry1, L A Cobus2, S E Skipetrov3

  • 1Institut Langevin, ESPCI ParisTech, CNRS UMR 7587, Université Denis Diderot-Paris 7, 1 rue Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France.

Physical Review Letters
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