Evaluation of coherent-state path integrals in statistical mechanics by matrix multiplication

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1562-1569

  Burghardt, Bernd ^a   Eicke, Joachim ^a   Stolze, Joachim ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 0000124456     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.475527     Document Type: Article

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