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Tskhakaya, D. (2008). The Particle-in-Cell Method. In: Fehske, H., Schneider, R., Weiße, A. (eds) Computational Many-Particle Physics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 739. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74686-7_6

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