Chapter 4: The lower bound method for density matrices and semidefinite programming

Advances in Chemical Physics

Volumn 134, Issue , 2007, Pages 61-91

  Erdahl, Robert M ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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