A new approach to the modeling of local defects in crystals: The reduced Hartree-Fock case

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 281, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 129-177

  Cancès, Éric ^a   Deleurence, Amélie ^a   Lewin, Mathieu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

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EID: 44349084730     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: 14320916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-008-0481-x     Document Type: Article

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