Relativistic scott correction for atoms and molecules

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-118

  Solovej, Jan Philip ^a   Sørensen, Thomas Østergaard ^b   Spitzer, Wolfgang Ludwig ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 77952264440     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: 00103640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.20296     Document Type: Article

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