Kadanoff-Baym dynamics of Hubbard clusters: Performance of many-body schemes, correlation-induced damping and multiple steady and quasi-steady states

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 15, 2010, Pages

  Puig Von Friesen, Marc ^a   Verdozzi, C ^a   Almbladh, C O ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 78149258741     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.155108     Document Type: Article

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