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Lanthanide-Radical Magnetic Coupling in [LnPc2]0: Competing Exchange Mechanisms Captured via Ab Initio Multi-Reference Calculations [LnPc2]0中镧系元素-自由基磁耦合:基于从头算多参考计算的竞争交换机制

Quantum Materials Research Pub Date : 2020-01-26 DOI: 10.20900/qmr20200003

Haibei Huang, W. V. D. Heuvel, A. Soncini

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