Stable periodic orbits of the highly excited nonrotating H3+ molecular ion

✍ Scribed by Roman Marcinek; Eli Pollak

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 532 KB
• Volume: 242
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(95)00714-f

✦ Synopsis

Application of the Newton method for locating stable periodic orbits is extended to include nonrotating and rotating triatomic molecules in 3D. A Monte Carlo-Newton method search for stable periodic orbits of the H~-molecular ion at the dissociation energy into H++ H 2 is presented. Using the convergence volume of the Newton method as an importance criterion, we find that the 'horseshoe' orbit used previously to assign the experimental coarse grained photodissociation spectra of H~-is the most important stable orbit. An additional new stable orbit is also discovered. Implications for quantum computations and experimental results are discussed.