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Atomic approximation to the projection on electronic states in the Douglas-Kroll-Hess approach to the relativistic

Alexei V Matveev1, Notker Rösch

  • 1Department Chemie, Theoretische Chemie, Technische Universitat Munchen, 85748 Garching, Germany.

The Journal of Chemical Physics
|July 8, 2008
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