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E Kirkinis1, S H Davis1

  • 1Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3125, USA.

Physical Review Letters
|August 29, 2014
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