Quantum Monte Carlo: Atoms, Molecules, Clusters, Liquids, and Solids

Reviews in Computational Chemistry

Volumn 13, Issue , 1999, Pages 133-182

  Anderson, James B ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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