The influence of nuclear rotation on weak electron binding in the long range field of a linear polar molecule is treated in a way that leads ultimately, with suitable approximation, to the familiar equations for close coupling of electron-nuclear-rotational motions. Subsequently, a conventional pseudopotential approximation is invoked to examine the rotational spectra of HCN and DCN anions. It is shown that the number of rotationally excited anion states cannot be reliably predicted by assuming that zero binding occurs when the rotational energy equals the electron affinity obtained in the Born–Oppenheimer approximation. A method is suggested for combining accurate molecular orbital and parameterized pseudopotential methods to provide accurate electron affinities for very weakly bound anionic states.
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14 December 2010
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December 09 2010
Non-Born–Oppenheimer approximation for very weakly bound states of molecular anions
W. R. Garrett
W. R. Garrett
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Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Tennessee
, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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J. Chem. Phys. 133, 224103 (2010)
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Received:
July 21 2010
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October 18 2010
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W. R. Garrett; Non-Born–Oppenheimer approximation for very weakly bound states of molecular anions. J. Chem. Phys. 14 December 2010; 133 (22): 224103. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3511638
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