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MILCH SHAKE: an efficient method for constraint dynamics applied to alkanes

A G Bailey1, C P Lowe

  • 1Department of Physics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom. aimeebailey@gmail.com

Journal of Computational Chemistry
|April 18, 2009
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