Vacuum Energy and Cosmological Constant: View from Condensed Matter

Journal of Low Temperature Physics

Volumn 124, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 25-39

  Volovik, G E ^a,b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b LANDAU INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 0042529332     PISSN: 00222291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1017561415063     Document Type: Article

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