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Markus Christen1, Wilfred F van Gunsteren

  • 1Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, ETH-Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.

The Journal of Chemical Physics
|April 26, 2005
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