New insight into the topology of excited states through detachment/attachment density matrices-based centroids of charge

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3906-3914

  Etienne, Thibaud ^a,b,c   Assfeld, Xavier ^a,b   Monari, Antonio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b NANCY UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

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EID: 84908072008     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct500400s     Document Type: Article

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