Recent advances in developing orbital - free kinetic energy functionals
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V.V. Karasiev, R.S. Jones, S.B. Trickey and Frank E. Harris Centro de Química, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas IVIC, Apartado 21827, Caracas 1020-A, Venezuela and Quantum Theory Project, Departments of Physics and of Chemistry, University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611, USA; Dept. of Physics, Loyola College in Maryland 4501 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210; Quantum Theory Project Dept. of Physics and Dept. of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville FL 32611, USA; Dept. of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Quantum Theory Project, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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