Re: Orbitals visualized

[Richard Grandy <rgrandy@RUF.RICE.EDU>]

An extended and heated debate about the alleged observation of the alleged
orbitals has been going on on:
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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?
>
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