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Spatial Separation of Molecular Conformers and Clusters
Published on: January 9, 2014
An Intruder-Free Fock Space Coupled-Cluster Study of the Potential Energy Curves of LiMg+ within the (2,0) Sector
Grzegorz Skrzyński1, Monika Musial1
1Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia in Katowice, Szkolna 9, 40-006 Katowice, Poland.
Abstract:
The potential energy curves (PECs) and spectroscopic constants of the ground and excited states of a LiMg+ molecular cation were investigated. We obtained accurate results for the fifteen lowest-lying states of the LiMg+ cation using the Intermediate Hamiltonian Fock Space Multireference Coupled Cluster (IH-FS-CC) method applied to the (2,0) sector. Relativistic corrections were accounted for using the third-order Douglas-Kroll method. In each instance, smooth PECs were successfully computed across the entire range of interatomic distances from equilibrium to the dissociation limit. The results are in good accordance with previous studies of this molecular cation. Notably, this study marks the first application of IH-FS-CC in investigating a mixed alkali and alkaline earth molecular cation, proving its usability in determining accurate PECs of such diatomics and their spectroscopic constants.
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