Landau theory of domain walls for one-dimensional asymmetric potentials

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1005-1012

  Sanati, Mahdi ^a   Saxena, Avadh ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0141525141     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.1578064     Document Type: Article

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