Evaluation of exchange-correlation energy, potential, and stress

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 16, 2001, Pages

  Balbas L C ^a   Martins, José Luís ^b   Soler, José M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0008805729     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.165110     Document Type: Article

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