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The ground-state dispersion energy of a pair of axially symmetric molecules is calculated, to arbitrary order in the inverse intermolecular separation, on the basis of London's anisotropic oscillator model.
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van der Merwe, A.J., van der Merwe, J.H. Dispersion interactions between unexcited molecules possessing axial symmetry: Arbitrary-order contributions. Found Phys 3, 297–311 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00708673
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