Generation of Helical states -- breaking of symmetries, Curie's principle, and excited states

Julia Sabalot-Cuzzubbo, Didier Bégué, Jacky Cresson

Following previous work of M.H. Garner, R. Hoffmann, S. Rettrup and G.C. Solomon, we discuss the generation of helical molecular orbitals (MOs) for linear chains of atoms. We first…