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Physics Letters A

A non-conventional approach to study the quenched impurity effects on quantum criticality

Alvaro Caramico D’Auria, L. De Cesare, Maria Teresa Mercaldo, Ileana Rabuffo

Published Mar 25, 2006• 1 citation
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10.1016/j.physleta.2006.03.040

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