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Harmonic Oscillator Approximation

The Harmonic Oscillator Approximation is a theoretical model in spectroscopy that assumes molecular vibrations can be described by a quadratic potential energy function, thereby simplifying the quantum mechanical treatment of vibrational motion as a parabolic restoring force proportional to displacement.

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Harmonic Oscillator Model

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A dimer method for finding saddle points on high dimensional potential surfaces using only first derivatives

Graeme Henkelman, Hannes Jónsson · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1999 · 3.4K citations

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Physical chemistry: a molecular approach

Choice Reviews Online · 1998 · 1.1K citations

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An analysis of the accuracy of Langevin and molecular dynamics algorithms

Richard W. Pastor, Bernard R. Brooks, Attila Szabó · Molecular Physics · 1988 · 1.1K citations

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Higher charmonia

T. Barnes, Stephen Godfrey, Eric S. Swanson · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology · 2005 · 801 citations · Full text

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Radiation from an<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>N</mml:mi></mml:math>-Atom System. I. General Formalism

R. H. Lehmberg · Physical review. A, General physics · 1970 · 790 citations

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    Donald G. Truhlar

    University of Minnesota, United States

    10 publications · 646 citations

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    Francisco M. Fernández

    Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas, Argentina

    9 publications · 276 citations

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    Forrest F. Cleveland

    Illinois Institute of Technology, United States

    9 publications · 290 citations

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    Augusto Beléndez

    University of Alicante, Spain

    7 publications · 190 citations

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    A.S.T. Pires

    Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

    7 publications · 142 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

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  2. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

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    46 publications

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  3. Oak Ridge National Laboratory

    Oak Ridge, United States

    16 h-index

    39 publications

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  4. Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Los Alamos, United States

    15 h-index

    27 publications

    1.2K citations

  5. University of Warsaw

    Warsaw, Poland

    15 h-index

    34 publications

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  6. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    14 h-index

    26 publications

    1.5K citations

  7. University of Tennessee at Knoxville

    Knoxville, United States

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    24 publications

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    Kyoto, Japan

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  2. Physical Review C

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  3. Physical review. B, Condensed matter

    PRB · 53 publications · 2.9K citations

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    PRA · 50 publications · 2.2K citations

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