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Rotational displacements in crystals

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The problem of random rotational displacement is solved and the theory of Brownian motion of molecules in crystals is developed. The probability distribution of orientations of a molecule is found as a decomposition into matrix elements of irreducible representations of point groups.

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Ivanov, E.N. Rotational displacements in crystals. J Stat Phys 8, 177–181 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01008538

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