Journal
CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 387, Issue 1-3, Pages 56-65Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2011.06.034
Keywords
Jahn-Teller effect; Spin-orbit coupling
Funding
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- TUM Graduate School of Science and Engineering
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The effects of linear and higher-order Jahn-Teller couplings as well as spin-orbit coupling in orbitally degenerate electronic states of the transition-metal trifluorides MnF3 and CoF3 have been systematically explored with multi-configuration ab initio methods. The adiabatic potential-energy surfaces of low-lying E-5' and E-5'' states have been calculated with the CASSCF method. The spin-orbit coupling is described by matrix elements of the Breit-Pauli operator with nonrelativistic CASSCF wave functions. The Jahn-Teller coupling parameters of the Jahn-Teller active in-plane bending and stretching modes have been determined up to sixth order and fourth order, respectively, in the normal-mode expansion. Vibronic spectra have been computed, employing a Jahn-Teller Hamiltonian up to sixth order in the degenerate bending mode and fourth order in the degenerate stretching mode. These results represent the first ab initio study of the dynamical Jahn-Teller effect in transition-metal trifluorides with inclusion of spin-orbit coupling. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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