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Springer proceedings in mathematics & statistics

Spin Chain Models of Free Fermions

Č. Burdík, Alexey P. Isaev, S. Krivonos, Ondřej Navrátil

Published Jan 1, 2014• 1 citation
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10.1007/978-4-431-55285-7_21

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