Comparison of classical and quantum phase space structure of nonrigid molecules, LiCN

  • R. M. Benito
  • , F. Borondo
  • , J. H. Kim
  • , B. G. Sumpter
  • , G. S. Ezra

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Abstract

We examine the classical and quantum phase space structure of the nonrigid molecule LiCN. The quantum phase space density for many vibrational eigenstates exhibits marked localization in classically chaotic regions of phase space.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)60-66
Number of pages7
JournalChemical Physics Letters
Volume161
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 1 1989
Externally publishedYes

Funding

This work was supported by NSF Grant CHE-8704632. RMB and FB acknowledge the support of the Comunidad Autonoma de Madrid and CICYT, Spain (contracts PB86/540and PB87/112). We are very grateful to Z. Bacic and J. Light for providing a version of their DVR-DGB code, and to J. Tennyson for providing a potential subroutine. Computations reported here were performed in part on the Cornell National Supercomputer Facility, which is supported by the NSF and IBM corporation.

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