Chapter 9: Purification of correlated reduced density matrices: Review and applications

Advances in Chemical Physics

Volumn 134, Issue , 2007, Pages 205-259

  Alcoba, D R ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

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