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Energies and spatial features for the rotationless bound states of 4He3+(2Sigmag+): a cationic core from helium
Emanuele Scifoni1, Franco A Gianturco, Sergy Yu Grebenshchikov
1Department of Chemistry, University of Rome La Sapienza, Piazzale A. Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy.
Abstract:
Ab initio quantum calculations have been carried out on the helium ionic trimer. The potential energy surface is accurately fitted, especially in the vicinity of the three equivalent minima. The spectrum of bound states for the zero angular momentum is computed and analyzed in detail. Energies and wave functions reveal several interesting features related to the fact that He3+ represents one of the few homonuclear ionic trimers that are linear in their ground vibrational state. At low energies, the triply degenerate eigenfunctions are localized at the potential minimum. With growing excitation energy, however, the wave functions exhibit stronger spatial delocalization.
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