The Jahn-Teller Effect Fundamentals and Implications for Physics and
The Jahn-Teller effect continues to be a paradigm for structural instabilities and dynamical processes in molecules and in the condensed phase. Among the many important newer developments in the field one should mention cooperative phenomena in cryst
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Professor Horst Köppel
Professor Heinz Barentzen
Universität Heidelberg Theoretische Chemie Im Neuenheimer Feld 229 69120 Heidelberg Germany E-Mail: [email protected]
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Professor A.W. Castleman, Jr. Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University 152 Davey Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Professor J.P. Toennies Max-Planck-Institut f¨ur Str¨omungsforschung Bunsenstrasse 10, 37073 G¨ottingen, Germany
Professor K. Yamanouchi University of Tokyo, Department of Chemistry Hongo 7-3-1, 113-0033 Tokyo, Japan
Professor W. Zinth Universit¨at M¨unchen, Institut f¨ur Medizinische Optik ¨ Ottingerstr. 67, 80538 M¨unchen, Germany
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Preface
The Jahn–Teller (JT) effect continues to be a paradigm for structural instabilities and dynamical processes in molecules
