Synchronization of clocks

Physics Reports

Volumn 517, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 1-69

  Kapitaniak, Marcin ^a,b   Czolczynski, Krzysztof ^a   Perlikowski, Przemysław ^a   Stefanski, Andrzej ^a   Kapitaniak, Tomasz ^a  

^a LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clocks; Discontinuous systems; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864547936     PISSN: 03701573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2012.03.002     Document Type: Review

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