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2000 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Is a molecule in chemistry explicable as a broken symmetry in quantum mechanics?

Author : Brian Sutcliffe

Published in: Mathematical Models and Methods for Ab Initio Quantum Chemistry

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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It is argued that incorporating the molecular geometry into the transformation specifications for deriving the standard (Eckart) Hamiltonian used to describe molecular spectra, cannot generally be accomplished without breaking the permutational symmetry requirements on identical nuclei.

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Title
Is a molecule in chemistry explicable as a broken symmetry in quantum mechanics?
Author
Brian Sutcliffe
Copyright Year
2000
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57237-1_1

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