Disorder-induced topological defects in a elastic medium at zero temperature

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 21, 2000, Pages 14787-14790

  Middleton, A Alan ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000385072     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.61.14787     Document Type: Article

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