Journal
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
Volume 13, Issue 4, Pages 1682-1690Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00083
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- I-Core: the Israeli Excellence Center Circle of Light
- Israel Science Foundation [298/11, 1530/15]
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Resonances are metastable states that decay after a finite period of time. These states play a role in many physical processes. For example, in recent cold collision experiments, autoionization from a resonance state was observed. Complementing such observations with theory provides insight into the reaction dynamics under study. Theoretical investigation of autoionization processes is enabled via complex potential energy surfaces (CPESs), where the real and imaginary parts, respectively, provide the energy and decay rate of the system. Unfortunately, calculation of ab initio polyatomic CPESs are cumbersome; hence, they are not in abundance. Here, we present an ab initio polyatomic CPES utilizing a recently developed approach, which makes such calculations feasible. This CPES helps interpret the autoionization process observed in the He(2(3)S) + H-2 collision. From the behavior of the calculated CPES we can conclusively determine the nature of the autoionization process. Moreover, this CPES was used to generate reaction rates for the collision of He with ortho- and para-H-2. These reaction rates are obtained from first principles. The results show a remarkable agreement with the cold collision experimental measurements, which demonstrates the robustness of our method. Hereby, we provide a computational tool for designing and interpreting new types of experiments that involve resonance states, e.g., in nucleobase damages (DNA or RNA) or in interatomic (intermolecular) Coulombic decay.
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