The geometry of vibration-induced rotational mixing in molecules
โ Scribed by D.K. Sahm; T. Uzer
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 510 KB
- Volume
- 163
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-2614
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โฆ Synopsis
In highly vibrationally excited molecules, rotational mixing describes the breakdown of K, the projection of the total molecular angular momentum on a body-fixed axis, as a good quantum number. We present a geometrical construction which illustrates the role of molecular vibrations in bringing about this breakdown.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
For the vibration-rotational motion of a diatomic molecule, various forms of an effective Hamiltonian which includes the corrections of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation in the form of radial functions are reviewed. A procedure to fit vibration-rotational and pure rotational transitions is proposed