ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
For the alkali dimers Li2, Na2, K2, Rb2, and Cs2 long-range potential energy curves of the molecular states corresponding to the asymptotes ns+ns and ns+np have been investigated from standard perturbation method up to second order in the multipolar expansion approximation of the interaction energy. Two different cases have been considered: (i) neglecting spin-orbit effects and then values of the long-range expansion coefficients Cn, n=(3), 6, 8, (10) have been determined (ii) including spin-orbit effects and then potential energy curves have been determined numerically and are graphically displayed. Very good agreement is obtained between present curves and very recent long-range experimental ones for the X 1Σ+g state of Li2 and for the X 1Σg+ and 1Πg states of Na2. The position and the energy of purely long-range extrema of the states 1u(2S1/2+ 2P1/2), 1u(2S1/2+2P3/2) and 0g−(2S1/2+2P3/2) have been determined for each alkali dimer investigated.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.448222
