Finite-size effects and Coulomb interactions in quantum Monte Carlo calculations for homogeneous systems with periodic boundary conditions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1814-1832

  Fraser, Louisa M ^a   Foulkes, W ^a   Rajagopal, G ^b   Needs, R ^b   Kenny, S ^b   Williamson, A ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0001626212     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.53.1814     Document Type: Article

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