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Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics

Order and chaos in classical models of spin chains

P. I. Belobrov, Valery V. Beloshapkin, Georgin Moiseevich Zaslavskiî, A. G. Tret’yakov

Published Jul 1, 1984• 5 citations
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