Chapter 3: Variational two-electron reduced-density-matrix theory

Advances in Chemical Physics

Volumn 134, Issue , 2007, Pages 21-59

  Mazziotti, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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