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The development of modern spectroscopic techniques and efficient computational methods have allowed a detailed investigation of highly excited vibrational states of small polyatomic molecules. As excitation energy increases, molecular motion becomes chaotic and nonlinear techniques can be applied to their analysis. The corresponding spectra get also complicated, but some interesting low resolution features can be understood simply in terms of classical periodic motions. In this chapter we describe some techniques to systematically construct quantum wave functions localized on specific periodic orbits, and analyze their main characteristics.
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Borondo, F., Benito, R.M. (2006). Quantum chaos in floppy molecular systems: The LiCN molecule. In: Khanna, F., Matrasulov, D. (eds) Non-Linear Dynamics and Fundamental Interactions. NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, vol 213. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3949-2_9
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