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Many investigations of autolocalized states—solitons—in molecular systems have used the classical description of molecular displacements from equilibrium positions at T = 0. In those cases quantum fluctuations of the equilibrium positions and thermal vibrations of molecule about new equilibrium position were not taken into account.
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Davydov, A.S. (1990). The Quantum Theory of Solitons with Thermal Vibration Taken into Account. In: Christiansen, P.L., Scott, A.C. (eds) Davydov’s Soliton Revisited. NATO ASI Series, vol 243. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9948-4_18
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