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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Dynamics of relaxation and the equilibrium state in an incompletely-chaotic quantum system

Vladimir Yurovsky, A. Ben‐Reuven, Maxim Olshanii

Published Jun 17, 2011• 0 citations
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