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Physical Review Letters – 5 November 2001
Volume 87, Issue 19

Kohn-Sham wave functions for two metallic edge states associated with Mo atoms at the edge of a MoS_2 nanostructure. [M. V. Bollinger, J. V. Lauritsen, K. W. Jacobsen, J. K. Nørskov, S. Helveg, and F. Besenbacher, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 196803 (2001)]

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ERRATA

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