Rayleigh approximation to ground state of the Bose and Coulomb glasses

S D Ryan1, V Mityushev2, V M Vinokur3

  • 1Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.

Scientific Reports
|January 17, 2015
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