Truncated minimum energy path method for finding first order saddle points
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2220-8054
DOI: 10.17586/2220-8054-2017-8-5-586-595