Occupation-number broadening schemes: Choice of “temperature”

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1654-1657

  Mehl, Michael J ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 4243500071     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.61.1654     Document Type: Article

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