THEORETICAL TRANSITION PROBABILITIES AND NON-DYNAMICAL ELECTRON CORRELATION EFFECTS IN DIATOMIC MOLECULES.
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1967
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Ohio State University
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Theoretical electronic transition probabilities for high and low energy transitions of a large number of diatomic molecules have been calculated. Ground state wavefunctions as a superposition of configurations have been used with a frozen core approximation for the excited state. To some extent ground state SCF and correlation effects can be distinguished. Particularly important, for low energy transitions, is non-dynamical (near degeneracy) correlation involving the principal hole-pair of the closed shell ground state and excited orbitals. An effect of this kind which had previously been discovered in the resonance transition of Be $atom^{1, 2}$ arising from $(2s)^{2p}$ near degeneracy is found to be present in diatomic molecules (i.e. $Be_{2}, C_{2}$) when population analysis of the LCAO-MO shows the hole MO to be largely 2s and the particle MO largely 2p. Very large R dependent changes in the purely electronic transition probability occur when the degree of principal hole-pair non-dynamical correlation depends on the internuclear distance, This effect occurs in intravalence shell transitions between MO which are degenerate for separated atoms. Examples of R dependent transition probabilities are drawn from our recent calculations on $H_{2}, F_{2}$ and other diatomics.
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Supported by the National Science Founadation. $^{1}$ S. R. La Paglia and Oktay Sinanoglu, J. Chem. Phys. 44, 1888 (1966). $^{2}$ H. P. Kelly, Phys. Rev. 136, BS96 (1964).
Author Institution: Chemistry Department, Georgetown University
Author Institution: Chemistry Department, Georgetown University