Marius Grundmann
Felix Bloch Institute for Solid State Physics
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
ISSN 1868-4513
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Graduate Texts in Physics
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Felix Bloch Institute for Solid State Physics
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
ISSN 1868-4513
ISSN 1868-4521 (electronic)
Graduate Texts in Physics
ISBN 978-3-030-51568-3
ISBN 978-3-030-51569-0 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51569-0
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