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The electrical properties of a two-dimensional packing of metallic beads are studied. Small mechanical perturbations of the packing lead to giant voltage fluctuations. Fluctuations are found to be non-Gaussian and seem to belong to Lévy stable distributions. Anticorrelations have been also found for the sign of these fluctuations.
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