ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
We calculate the ground state and a class of zero orbital angular momentum (L=0) vibrationally excited state energies for NeN and ArN clusters using an adiabatic hyperspherical representation to solve the nuclear Schrödinger equation. The Schrödinger equation in the hyperangular coordinates is solved for a sequence of fixed hyperradii by diffusion Monte Carlo techniques, which determines the lowest effective potential curve. We monitor structural properties such as the pair and angle distribution as a function of the hyperspherical radius. These structural studies allow us to identify configurational changes as the N atom cluster fragments into an (N−1)-atom cluster plus an atom. We also determine separately the ground state of the full 3N-dimensional nuclear Schrödinger equation for the ground state, and compare the resulting structural properties with those calculated in the adiabatic hyperspherical approximation. © 2000 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1288385