DETERMINING AN ATTRACTIVE DIATOM POTENTIAL WELL BY INVERSION OF BOUND-CONTINUUM EMISSION INTENSITIES
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1986
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Ohio State University
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In previous $work, ^{1}$ an ``RKR-like'' inversion procedure for determining a repulsive diatom potential curve from the positions of the intensity extrema associated with continuum emission or absorption from a single vibrational level of a known bound state potential, was described and tested. The present paper presents and illustrates a complementary inversion procedure for determining the initial bound state curve associated with such a spectrum from the positions of these intensity extrema and knowledge of the repulsive final state curve. An application of the method to $data ^{2}$ for the $^{3}\Sigma^{+}$ state of NaK also demonstrates the utility of this procedure for cases in which the experimental data are incomplete and the vibrational assignment of the initial level is not known.
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$^{1}$ M. S. Child, H. Essen and R. J. Le Roy, J. Chem. Phys. 78, 6732 (1983). $^{2}$ E. J. Breford and F. Engelke, Chem. Phys.Lett. 53, 282 (1978). Address: Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3Gl, Canada
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