Molecular Wavefunction

from the website of [the late] Prof. Kent Wilson, UCSD


The Born-Oppenheimer Approximation

The Born-Oppenheimer approximation tells us that the molecular wavefunction is a product of nuclear and electronic wavefunctions.

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