Computing Excited OH Stretch States of Water Dimer in 12D Using Contracted Intermolecular and Intramolecular Basis Functions
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Wang, Xiao-Gang
Carrington, Tucker Jr.
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2023-01-24
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Due to the ubiquity and importance of water, water dimer has been intensively studied. Computing the (ro-)vibrational spectrum of water dimer is challenging. The potential has eight wells separated by low barriers, which makes harmonic approximations of limited utility. A variational approach is imperative, but difficult because there are 12 coupled vibrational coordinates. In this paper, we use a product contracted basis whose functions are products of intramolecular and intermolecular functions computed using an iterative eigensolver. An intermediate matrix F facilitates calculating matrix elements. Using F, it is possible to do calculations on a general potential without storing the potential on the full quadrature grid. We find that surprisingly many intermolecular functions are required. This is due to the importance of coupling between inter- and intra-molecular coordinates. The full G16 symmetry of water dimer is exploited. We calculate, for the first time, monomer excited stretch states and compare P(1) transition frequencies with their experimental counterparts. We also compare with experimental vibrational shifts and tunneling splittings. Surprisingly, we find that the largest tunneling splitting, which does not involve the interchange of the two monomers, is smaller in the asymmetric stretch excited state than in the ground state. Differences between levels we compute and those obtained with a [6+6]D adiabatic approximation [Leforestier et al. J. Chem. Phys. 137 014305 (2012)] are ∼0.6 cm−1 for states without monomer excitation, ∼4 cm−1 for monomer excited bend states, and as large as ∼10 cm−1 for monomer excited stretch states.
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This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in Xiao-Gang Wang, Tucker Carrington; Computing excited OH stretch states of water dimer in 12D using contracted intermolecular and intramolecular basis functions. J. Chem. Phys. 28 February 2023; 158 (8): 084107 and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0139586.
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Xiao-Gang Wang, Tucker Carrington; Computing excited OH stretch states of water dimer in 12D using contracted intermolecular and intramolecular basis functions. J. Chem. Phys. 28 February 2023; 158 (8): 084107. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0139586
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https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0139586