Thermally assisted tunneling of hydrogen in silicon: A path-integral Monte Carlo study

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 55, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 9235-9238

  Herrero, Carlos P ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

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EID: 0000196376     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.55.9235     Document Type: Article

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