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Fig. 3:
Schematic representation of the quantum mechanical density of a molecular
para-hydrogen cluster with N=5 H2 molecules. Each hydrogen
molecule is represented by a rigid rotor or dumbbell.
Twenty-five possible realizations, which
represent the quantum mechanical density, are shown.
The coordinates of each realization are
oriented so that it has maximum
overlap with the classical geometry shown in the inset in red.
Clearly, molecular para-hydrogen clusters are highly diffuse quantum objects
for which a classical description is insufficient.
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