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IT is well known that the scattering tensor for vibrational Raman scattering is symmetric1. This is, however, not true for electronic Raman transitions (refs. 1, 2 and unpublished results), and this has important implications in the selection rules for these transitions.
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KONINGSTEIN, J., MORTENSEN, O. Experimental Observation of an Antisymmetric Raman Scattering Tensor. Nature 217, 445–446 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217445a0
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