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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

The complexity of the CaF$_2$:Yb system: evidence that CaF$_2$:Yb2+ is not an impurity trapped exciton system

Cameron MacKeen, Frank G. Bridges, M. Kozina, Apurva Mehta, Michael F. Reid, J.-P. R. Wells, Zoila Barandiarán

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