Degenerate ground states and a fractional number of electrons in density and reduced density matrix functional theory

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 22, 2000, Pages 5172-5175

  Yang, Weitao ^a   Zhang, Yingkai ^a   Ayers, Paul W ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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EID: 0000486590     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5172     Document Type: Article

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