Approaches to the approximate treatment of complex molecular systems by the multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree method

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 2927-2939

  Burghardt, I ^a,b   Meyer, H D ^a   Cederbaum, L S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

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EID: 0000115082     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.479574     Document Type: Article

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