Benchmarks for electronically excited states: a comparison of noniterative and iterative triples corrections in linear response coupled cluster methods: CCSDR(3) versus CC3

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 555-564

  Sauer, Stephan P A ^a   Schreiber, Marko ^b   Silva Junior, Mario R ^b   Thiel, Walter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KOHLENFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

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EID: 65349131481     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct800256j     Document Type: Article

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