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Chaos Solitons & Fractals

Non-commutative geometry and matrix quantum mechanics

Abbas Farmany, Roshanak Lotfikar, Shahryar Abbasi, Ali Naghipour, Amin Farmany

Published Dec 5, 2008• 5 citations
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10.1016/j.chaos.2008.10.021

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