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Abstract
The influence of long-range intermolecular forces upon the refractive index and optical rotation of molecular fluids is examined using quantum electrodynamics and many-body theory. An expression for this effect, analogous to the McLachlan formula for the dispersion energy, and involving the molecular polarizability and second hyperpolarizability, is derived in the case of a non-polar fluid.