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The Effective Hamiltonian for Polyatomic Molecule Vibration

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The vibrational Hamiltonian may be expressed in a basis set consisting of products of harmonic oscillators, one oscillator for each of the 3N − 6 normal modes, where N is the number of atoms in the molecule.

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Field, R.W. (2015). The Effective Hamiltonian for Polyatomic Molecule Vibration. In: Spectra and Dynamics of Small Molecules. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 900. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15958-4_7

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