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A system of coupled CH3-type torsional oscillators embedded in a crystal field of definite symmetry and interacting with an externally applied d.c. magnetic field is considered. Interaction among the neighboring CH3 groups is assumed to be the result of electrostatic interaction of the respective charge distributions. To obtain an approximate but nevertheless reasonably accurate description of the lowest lying energy eigenstates we examine the minima of the potential energy of the system. Next we construct Gaussian wave packets peaked at each of these minima and form linear superpositions in order to respect the symmetries of the problem under consideration.
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Peternelj, J., Jencic, I., Cvikl, B., Pintar, M.M. (1987). Tunneling of CH3 Groups in Molecular Crystals of the X(CH3) n Type. In: Heidemann, A., Magerl, A., Richter, D., Prager, M., Springer, T. (eds) Quantum Aspects of Molecular Motions in Solids. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71914-1_15
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