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Asymptotic behavior of atomic and molecular wave functions

J Katriel1, E R Davidson

  • 1Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|August 1, 1980
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