Beyond Born-Oppenheimer Constructed Diabatic Potential Energy Surfaces for HeH2+

First-principles based beyond Born-Oppenheimer theory has been employed to construct multistate global Potential-Energy Surfaces (PESs) for the HeH2+ system by explicitly incorporating the Nonadiabatic Coupling Terms (NACTs). Adiabatic PESs and NACTs for the lowest four electronic states (12A ', 22A ', 32A ' and 42A ') are evaluated as functions of hyperangles for a grid of fixed values of the hyperradius in hyperspherical coordinates. Conical intersection between different states are validated by integrating the NACTs along appropriately chosen contours. Subsequently, adiabatic-to-diabatic (ADT) transformation angles are determined by solving the ADT equations to construct the diabatic potential matrix for the HeH2+ system which are smooth, single-valued, continuous, and symmetric and are suitable for performing accurate scattering calculations for the titled system.

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First-principles based beyond Born-Oppenheimer theory is used to construct multistate global Potential-Energy Surfaces (PESs) for the HeH2+ system by explicitly incorporating the Nonadiabatic Coupling Terms (NACTs). Adiabatic PESs and NACTs for the lowest four electronic states (12A ', 22A ', 32A ' and 42A ') are evaluated as functions of hyperangles in hyperspherical coordinates. Conical intersections between different states are validated by integrating the NACTs along chosen contours. Subsequently, adiabatic-to-diabatic (ADT) transformation angles are determined to construct the diabatic potential matrix, which is suitable for accurate scattering calculations.