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Thermodynamic functions as correlation-function integrals

K Koga1, B Widom

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan. koga@okayama-u.ac.jp

The Journal of Chemical Physics
|March 29, 2013
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