Quantum-defect analysis of 3p and 3d H{sub 3} Rydberg energy levels

Journal Article · Sun Aug 15 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · Physical Review. A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVA.82.022506· OSTI ID:21448489

Jia, Wang; Greene, Chris H ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309 (United States)

In this work, Rydberg energy levels of the triatomic hydrogen molecule (H{sub 3}) are studied with multichannel quantum-defect theory. We extract the body-frame p-wave quantum defects from highly accurate ab initio electronic potential surfaces and calculate the quantum defects of higher angular-momentum states in a long-range multipole potential model. Laboratory-frame quantum-defect matrices emerge from a rovibrational-frame transformation carried out with accurate rovibrational states of H{sub 3}{sup +}. Finally, we use the laboratory-frame quantum defects to calculate Rydberg energy levels for the fundamental neutral triatomic molecule H{sub 3}.

• OSTI ID: 21448489
• Journal Information: Physical Review. A, Vol. 82, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.022506; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 1050-2947
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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