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Partial averaging and the centroid virial estimator for stereographic projection path-integral simulations in curved

Michael W Avilés1, E Curotto

  • 1Department of Chemistry and Physics, Arcadia University, Glenside, Pennsylvania 19038, USA.

The Journal of Chemical Physics
|June 11, 2005
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