Elucidating the Coupling Mechanisms of Rapid Intramolecular Vibrational Energy Redistribution in Nitromethane: Ab
Meilin Lu1,2, Zhaoyang Zheng2, Gangbei Zhu2
1School of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China.
Abstract:
Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations are presented to investigate the intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution (IVR) of an isolated nitromethane molecule. A number of IVR processes are simulated by monitoring the kinetic energy of vibrational modes under selective low-lying vibrational excitations from their ground states (Δν = 1 or 2). Evolution of the normal-mode kinetic energy gives the ultrafast energy transfer processes from parent modes to daughter modes intuitively. From the ultrafast vibrational transfer made by Fourier transformation of the time-dependent normal-mode kinetic energy, we can capture that the symmetry of the normal modes plays an important role in the anharmonic coupling between the vibrational modes. The results show three symmetry-dependent coupling mechanisms: direct symmetric coupling, overtone-assisted coupling, and rotation-assisted coupling. Furthermore, the calculated efficiencies of IVR also coincide with these mechanisms.
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