Minimum principles and level splitting in quantum Monte Carlo excitation energies: Application to diamond

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 2330-2337

  Towler, M ^a   Hood, Randolph Q ^a   Needs, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0000846722     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.62.2330     Document Type: Article

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