Phy5670/JahnTellerEffect

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The Jahn Teller effect (JTE), also called Jahn Teller distortion, is the spontaneous geometrical distortion of a nonlinear molecule to lower the overall energy of the system by breaking the degeneracy of a ground or excited state.

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