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
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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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.