Humfeld, Keith Daniel2014-03-142014-03-141998-07-31etd-011599-152335http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30958The ground state electron wavefunction of some molecules has a non-zero angular momentum about the internuclear axis. Molecular rotational momentum can couple with this angular momentum, splitting the energy degeneracy of the two directions of motion about the internuclear axis. Performing a Born-Oppenheimer approximation of such a system will break the relevant energy degeneracy at eighth order. This degeneracy breaking is known as L-doubling.In CopyrightMultiple ScalesLamda-DoublingBorn-Oppenheimer ApproximationHydrogenThesishttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-011599-152335/