Surface hopping simulation of the vibrational relaxation of I2 in liquid xenon using the collective probabilities
Adolfo Bastida1, Carlos Cruz, José Zúñiga
1Departamento de Química Física, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain. bastida@um.es
Abstract:
A surface hopping simulation of the vibrational relaxation of highly excited I(2) in liquid xenon is presented. The simulation is performed by using the collective probabilities algorithm which assures the coincidence of the classical and quantum populations. The agreement between the surface hopping simulation results and the experimental measurements for the vibrational energy decay curves at different solvent densities and temperatures is shown to be good. The overlap of the decay curves when the time axis is linearly scaled is explained in terms of the perturbative theory for the rate constants. The contribution of each solvent atom to the change of the quantum populations of the solute molecule is used to analyze the mechanism of the relaxation process
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