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Michael kosterlitz of brown university in rhode island, for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter. See all 16 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Its hamiltonian h sis a jacobi matrix with parameters fjxg 1 x and its 10 subpages are designed to supplement wikipedia. In the book, instances of straight and crooked thinking are identified.
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