Posmom: The unobserved observable

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1254-1258

  Bernard, Yves A ^a   Gill, Peter M W ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIH MOLECULE; MOMENTUM METHOD; PROBABILITY DENSITIES;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 77951161028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz100216d     Document Type: Article

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