Long-range induction coefficients for like centrosymmetric linear molecules and an application to H 2–H 2

Abstract

The C 8 and C 10 long-range induction coefficients for two like centrosymmetric linear molecules are derived explicitly using the irreducible properties of spherical tensor operators. An application to the H 2–H 2 system shows that whereas the isotropic induction coefficients are 50–100 times smaller than dispersion, the induction anisotropies γ n are always larger than the corresponding dispersion anisotropies.