A numerical test of activated rate theories for cusped and smooth potentials

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 104, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 6547-6559

  Starobinets, Alexander ^a   Rips, Ilya ^a   Pollak, Eli ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

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EID: 0000484958     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.471374     Document Type: Article

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