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A simulation method for calculating the absolute entropy and free energy of fluids: application to liquid argon and

Ronald P White1, Hagai Meirovitch

  • 1Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, W1058 BST, PA 15261, USA.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|June 16, 2004
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