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Has any of you seen, read or heard of the recent article in Nature .. G.
Nogues, A. Rauschenbeutel, S. Osnaghi, M. Brune, J.-M. Raimond and S.
Haroche, Nature 400, 239 (1999), as reported in Science 285, 307 (1999) ..
purporting reproducibly to have observed quantum states or orbitals?
There's currently a debate on the chemed-l as to whether the direct
measurement of wave functions, as opposed for example to electron density,
is possible.
Any opinions you care to offer?

John N. Cooper, Chemistry
Bucknell University
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jcooper@bucknell.edu
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