Why semilocal functionals work: Accuracy of the on-top pair density and importance of system averaging

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 3760-3771

  Burke, Kieron ^a   Perdew, John P ^b   Ernzerhof, Matthias ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

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EID: 0001326029     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.476976     Document Type: Article

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