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A thorough investigation has been performed for electronic structure, topological effect, and nuclear dynamics of NO2 molecule, where the adiabatic potential energy surfaces (PESs), conical intersections between the ground (X²A1) and the first excited state (A²B2), and the corresponding non-adiabatic coupling terms between those states are recalculated [Chem. Phys. 416, 11 (2013)] to achieve enough accuracy in dynamics. We employ beyond Born-Oppenheimer theory for these two state sub-Hilbert space to carry out adiabatic to diabatic transformation (ADT) to obtain the ADT angles and thereby, to construct single-valued, smooth, and continuous diabatic PESs. The analytic expressions for the adiabatic PESs and ADT angles are provided to represent a two-state three-mode diabatic Hamiltonian of NO2 for performing nuclear dynamics to calculate the photoelectron spectra of its anion. It appears that not only Jahn-Teller type coupling but also Renner-Teller interaction contributes significantly on the overall spectrum. The coupling between the electronic states (X²A1 and A²B2) of NO2 is essentially through the asymmetric stretching mode, where the functional form of such interaction is distinctly symmetric and non-linear. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We perform ab initio calculation using quantum chemistry package (MOLPRO) on the excited states of Na3 cluster and present the adiabatic PESs for the electronic states 22E′ and 12A1′, and the non-adiabatic coupling (NAC) terms among those states. Since the ab initio calculated NAC elements for the states 22E′ and 12A1′ demonstrate the numerical validity of so called 'Curl Condition,' such states closely form a sub-Hilbert space. For this subspace, we employ the NAC terms to solve the 'adiabatic-diabatic transformation (ADT)' equations to obtain the functional form of the transformation angles and pave the way to construct the continuous and single valued diabatic potential energy surface matrix by exploiting the existing first principle based theoretical means on beyond Born-Oppenheimer treatment. Nuclear dynamics has been carried out on those diabatic surfaces to reproduce the experimental spectrum for system B of Na3 cluster and thereby, to explore the numerical validity of the theoretical development on beyond Born-Oppenheimer approach for adiabatic to diabatic transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study is devoted to the possibility that tri-atomic molecules were formed during or shortly after the Big Bang. For this purpose, we consider the ordinary H3+ and H3 molecular systems and the primitive tri-atomic molecular system, H3++, which, as is shown, behaves differently. The study is carried out by comparing the topological features of these systems as they are reflected through their non-adiabatic coupling terms. Although H3++ is not known to exist as a molecule, we found that it behaves as such at intermediate distances. However, this illusion breaks down as its asymptotic region is reached. Our study indicates that whereas H3+ and H3 dissociate smoothly, the H3++ does not seem to do so. Nevertheless, the fact that H3++ is capable of living as a molecule on borrowed time enables it to catch an electron and form a molecule via the reaction H3++ + e → H3+ that may dissociate properly: Thus, the two unique features acquired by H3++, namely, that it is the most primitive system formed by three protons and one electron and topologically, still remain for an instant a molecule, may make it the sole candidate for becoming the cornerstone for creating the molecules. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article continues a previous study (Int. J. Quantum Chem.114, 1645 (2014)) in which is presented a theory that discusses the possibility to induce a novel field – to be called molecular field – via the interaction of an external electro-magnetic (EM) field and a molecular system. Assuming the molecular system is made up of two coupled adiabatic states the theory leads from three time-space curl equations and one time-space divergence equation to a set of decoupled wave equations usually encountered for fields. In the present study, wave equations are derived for an external field having two features: (1) the field intensity is relativelyhigh enough; (2) the duration of the interaction isshort enough. For this situation, the study reveals that the just mentioned interaction creates two fields that coexist within a molecule: one is just a scalar EM field essentially identical to the external EM field and the other, a vectorial field, produced by the non-adiabatic coupling terms. In addition, we mention that the wave velocities related to these two fields are identical to the wave velocity, c, of the external EM field. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

We calculate the adiabatic potential energy surfaces (PESs) and the non-adiabatic coupling terms (NACTs) for the excited electronic states of K 3 cluster by MRCI approach using MOLPRO. The NACTs are adapted with molecular symmetry to assign appropriate IREPs so that the elements of the Hamiltonian matrix are totally symmetric. We incorporate those NACTs into three-state adiabatic-to-diabatic transformation (ADT) equations to obtain ADT angles for constructing continuous, single-valued, smooth and symmetric diabatic Hamiltonian matrix, where its elements are fitted with analytic functions. Finally, we demonstrate that the dressed diabatic and adiabatic-via-dressed diabatic PECs show prominent topological effect over dressed adiabatic curves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We implement a coupled three-dimensional (3D) time-dependent wave packet formalism for the 4D reactive scattering problem in hyperspherical coordinates on the accurate double many body expansion (DMBE) potential energy surface (PES) for the ground and first two singlet states (1¹A', 2¹A', and 3¹A') to account for nonadiabatic processes in the D+ + H2 reaction for both zero and nonzero values of the total angular momentum (J). As the long-range interactions in D+ + H2 contribute significantly due to nonadiabatic effects, the convergence profiles of reaction probabilities for the reactive noncharge transfer (RNCT), nonreactive charge transfer (NRCT), and reactive charge transfer (RCT) processes are shown for different collisional energies with respect to the helicity (K) and total angular momentum (J) quantum numbers. The total and state-to-state cross sections are presented as a function of the collision energy for the initial rovibrational state v = 0, j = 0 of the diatom, and the calculated cross sections compared with other theoretical and experimental results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We explore a coupled three-dimensional(3D) time-dependent wavepacket formalism in hyperspherical coordinates for a 4D reactive scatteringproblem on the lowest adiabatic singlet surface (11A′)of the D++ H2reaction. The coupling amongthe wavepackets arises through quantization of the rotation matrix,which represents the orientation of the three particles in space.The required transformation from Jacobi to hyperspherical coordinatesand vice versa during initialization and projection of the wave packeton the asymptotic state(s), and the coupled equations of motion, arebriefly discussed. With the long-range potential known to contributesignificantly on the D++ H2system, we demonstratethe workability of our approach, where the convergence profiles ofthe reaction probability for the reactive noncharge transfer (RNCT)process [D++ H2(v=0, j=0,1) → HD(v′,j′) + H+] are shown for three different collisionalenergies (1.7, 2.1, and 2.5 eV) with respect to the helicity (K) and total angular momentum (J) quantumnumbers. The calculated reactive cross-section is presented as a functionof the collision energy for two different initial states of the diatom(v= 0, j= 0, 1). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]