Journal
MOLECULAR PHYSICS
Volume 115, Issue 21-22, Pages 2833-2848Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2017.1340680
Keywords
Adiabatic potential energy surfaces; non-adiabatic coupling terms; Jahn-Teller effect; pseudo Jahn-Teller effect; conical intersections
Funding
- CSIR [09/080(0960)/2014-EMR-I]
- DST [EMR/2015/001314]
- IACS, India
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In order to explore spectroscopic properties of a floppy molecule, it is necessary to compute accurate diabatic potential energy surfaces (PESs) around the Franck-Condon region of nuclear configuration space. In such cases, it is desirable to include the non-adiabatic coupling terms (NACTs) through Jahn-Teller (JT) and pseudo Jahn-Teller (PJT) effects as well as other accidental conical intersections (CIs) prevailing among the electronic states of the molecule. In this work, we investigate NACTs among the five lowest doublet electronic states of NO3 radical [X(2)A'(2)(1(2)B(2)), A '' E-2 '' (1(2)A(2) and 1(2)B(1)), (BE)-E-2' (1(2)A(1) and 2(2)B(2))], in which all those effects (JT, PJT and CIs) have prominent contributions. The study is carried out in terms of normal modes (Q(i)s) of NO3 and the CIs (JT and accidental) are located in a plane of nuclear configuration space of two such coordinates (Q(i) and Q(j)). We have calculated ab initio adiabatic PESs and NACTs of those five states of NO3 at the MRCI level as functions of pairwise Q(i)s. Further, to explore the nature of a given CI in terms of normal coordinates contributing to NACTs within a particular plane Q(i)-Q(j), we have performed CP-MCSCF study computing analytic NACTs and characterised their contributions along various Q(k)s.
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