Quasi-continuum approximations for travelling kinks in diatomic lattices

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General

Volumn 34, Issue 36, 2001, Pages 7163-7180

  Tew, Russell B ^a   Wattis, Jonathan A D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0035860663     PISSN: 03054470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0305-4470/34/36/304     Document Type: Article

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