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Progress of Theoretical Physics

Excitation Spectra of the Impurity Anderson Model Calculated by the Numerical Renormalization Group Method (Physics of f-Electrons and Related Phenomena in Strongly Correlated Systems)

Osamu Sakai, Yukihiro Shimizu, T. Kasuya

Published Jun 1, 1992• 0 citations
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