Metastability of-dimensional elastic manifolds

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 5486-5492

  Gorokhov, D ^a   Blatter, G ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0000197051     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.58.5486     Document Type: Article

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