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Jasik P, Franz J, Kędziera D, Kilich T, Kozicki J, Sienkiewicz JE. Spontaneous electron emission vs dissociation in internally hot silver dimer anions. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:164301. [PMID: 33940838 DOI: 10.1063/5.0046060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Referring to a recent experiment, we theoretically study the process of a two-channel decay of the diatomic silver anion (Ag2 -), namely, the spontaneous electron ejection giving Ag2 + e- and the dissociation leading to Ag- + Ag. The ground state potential energy curves of the silver molecules of diatomic neutral and negative ions were calculated using proper pseudo-potentials and atomic basis sets. We also estimated the non-adiabatic electronic coupling between the ground state of Ag2 - and the ground state of Ag2 + e-, which, in turn, allowed us to estimate the minimal and mean values of the electron autodetachment lifetimes. The relative energies of the rovibrational levels allow the description of the spontaneous electron emission process, while the description of the rotational dissociation is treated with the quantum dynamics method as well as time-independent methods. The results of our calculations are verified by comparison with the experimental data.
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Affiliation(s)
- P Jasik
- Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Gdańsk University of Technology, 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Gdańsk University of Technology, 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
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- Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Gdańsk University of Technology, 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Gdańsk University of Technology, 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Gdańsk University of Technology, 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland
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Bormotova EA, Kozlov SV, Pazyuk EA, Stolyarov AV, Majewska I, Moszynski R. Theoretical study of the Coriolis effect in LiNa, LiK, and LiRb molecules. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:5187-5198. [PMID: 33624674 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp06487d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The non-adiabatic electronic matrix elements, LΠΣ(R), that arise from the spin-conserving electron-rotational interactions between all mΣ+ and mΠ states, where multiplicity m = 1, 3, converging to the lowest three dissociation limits of Li-containing alkali diatomics, LiM (M = Na, K, Rb), were calculated ab initio up to large internuclear distances, R. The required electronic wavefunctions were obtained within the framework of the multi-reference configuration interaction treatment of the two-valence-electron problem constructed using small-core scalar-relativistic effective core potentials and l-independent core-polarization potentials. A least squares analysis of the ab initio functions at large internuclear distances in conjunction with long-range perturbation theory (LRPT) revealed three different asymptotic behaviors of the LΠΣ(R → +∞)-functions: const. + β[n]/Rn, characterized by n = -1, 3 and 6. The asymptotic coefficients β[n], extracted from the point-wise ab initio data, were found to be in agreement with their LRPT counterparts, which were evaluated analytically using the relevant atomic parameters. The mass dependence of the LΠΣ matrix elements was investigated analytically and numerically. To confirm the reliability of the LΠΣ(R)-functions and interatomic potentials at small and intermediate distances, the empirical q-factors available for the D1Π-states of all LiM molecules studied were compared with their theoretical counterparts derived from the present ab initio data.
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- E A Bormotova
- Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory 1/3, 119991, Moscow, Russia.
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- Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory 1/3, 119991, Moscow, Russia.
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- Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory 1/3, 119991, Moscow, Russia.
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- Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory 1/3, 119991, Moscow, Russia.
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- Quantum Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland.
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- Quantum Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland.
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