Improved partition-expansion of two-center distributions involving Slater functions

Rafael López1, Guillermo Ramírez, Ignacio Ema

  • 1Departamento de Química Física Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias C-XIV, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. rafael.lopez@uam.es

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