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Zhou Lin¹, Anne B McCoy¹

¹Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States.

The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

|August 21, 2015

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H5+anharmonicity diffusion Monte Carlo

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