On the Classical Description of Nuclear Motion

Abstract

Severe methodological and numerical problems of the traditional quantum mechanical approach to the description of molecular systems are outlined. To overcome these, a simple alternative to the Born-Oppenheimer approximation is presented on the basis of taking the nuclei as classical particles.

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