Nonorthogonality problem and effective electronic coupling calculation: Application to charge transfer in π-stacks relevant to biochemistry and molecular electronics

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1712-1725

  Migliore, Agostino ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 79959222159     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct200192d     Document Type: Article

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