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Aixing Wang1, Lifeng Sun, Chao Fang
1Engineering Research Center of Nuclear Technology Application (East China Institute of Technology), Ministry of Education, Nanchang 330013, China. fangchao@tsinghua.edu.cn.
Abstract:
The vibrational nonlinear dynamics of HOBr in the bending and O-Br stretching coordinates with anharmonicity and Fermi 2:1 coupling are studied with dynamical potentials in this article. The result shows that the H-O stretching vibration mode has significantly different effects on the coupling between the O-Br stretching mode and the H-O-Br bending mode under different Polyad numbers. The dynamical potentials and the corresponding phase space trajectories are obtained when the Polyad number is 27, for instance, and the fixed points in the dynamical potentials of HOBr are shown to govern the various quantal environments in which the vibrational states lie. Furthermore, it is also found that the quantal environments could be identified by the numerical values of action integrals, which is consistent with former research.
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