ACCURATE AB INITIO, POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACE AND PREDICTED SPECTROSCOPIC PROPERTIES OF BeH$_2$, BeD$_2$ and BeHD
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2006
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Ohio State University
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A three-dimensional potential energy surface for the ground electronic state of BeH$_2$ has been constructed from more than 6800 symmetry-unique {\em ab initio} points calculated at the icMRCI/aug-cc-pV5Z level, and corrected for core electron electron correlation computed at the MR-ACPF/cc-pCV5Z level. Calculated spectroscopic constants of BeH$_2$ and BeD$_2$ are in excellent agreement with recent experimental results, and spectral constants for BeHD are predicted using the same potential surface. The effect of different interpolation methods on predicted potential function values and on the calculated level energies and spectroscopic constants has been examined. Preliminary results of work on determining a global analytic function for this three-dimensional potential energy surface based on symmetric and antisymmetric stretching coordinates will be described.
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Author Institution: Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work; in Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario ; N2L 3G1, Canada