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every banana shaped molecule has been represented by three GB |
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particles which is characterized by $\mu = 1,~ \nu = 2, |
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~\epsilon_{e}/\epsilon_{s} = 1/5$ and $\sigma_{e}/\sigma_{s} = 3$. |
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configuration where 1024 molecules without dipoles were confined in |
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arbitrary shape was introduce by Stone\cite{Stone1978} and adopted |
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2(\hat x_i \cdot \hat x_j )(\hat y_i \cdot \hat y_j ))} |
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2(\hat x_i \cdot \hat x_j )(\hat y_i \cdot \hat y_j )) \right> |
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S_{00}^{221} (r) = - \frac{{\sqrt 3 }}{{\sqrt {10} }}\left\langle |