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Neutral atoms and molecules may be pictured as rapidly oscillating dipoles with frequencies of the order of \(\hbar \omega _0 \approx \alpha \hbar c/2 a_0\) and dipole moment sizes \(\mu _{\mathrm {el}}\approx ea_0\).
Pluritas non est ponenda sine necessitate.
William of Occam (Ockham)
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Povh, B., Rosina, M. (2017). Intermolecular Forces – Building Complex Structures. In: Scattering and Structures. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-54515-7_7
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