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Keisuke Ohta1, Yoshiyuki Matsuda, Naohiko Mikami

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Aramaki-Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.

The Journal of Chemical Physics
|November 18, 2009
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