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Charge transfer in sodium iodide collisions
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4138-4015
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7023-2486
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2182-7165
Number of Authors: 32023 (English)In: Journal of Chemical Physics, ISSN 0021-9606, E-ISSN 1089-7690, Vol. 158, no 1, article id 014305Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Sodium iodide (NaI) has, over the years, served as a prototype system in studies of non-adiabatic dynamics. Here, the charge transfer collision reactions Na+ + I− ⇆ Na + I (mutual neutralization and ion-pair formation) are studied using an ab initio approach and the total and differential cross sections are calculated for the reactions. This involves electronic structure calculations on NaI to obtain adiabatic potential energy curves, non-adiabatic and spin–orbit couplings, followed by nuclear dynamics, treated fully quantum mechanically in a strictly diabatic representation. A single avoided crossing at 13.22 a0 dominates the reactions, and the total cross sections are well captured by the semi-classical Landau–Zener model. Compared to the measured ion-pair formation cross section, the calculated cross section is about a factor of two smaller, and the overall shape of the calculated differential cross section is in reasonable agreement with the measured ion-pair formation differential cross section. Treating the Landau–Zener coupling as an empirical parameter of 0.05 eV, the measured total and differential cross sections are well captured when performing fully quantum mechanical cross section calculations including rotational coupling. A semi-empirical spin–orbit coupling model is also investigated, giving satisfactory estimation of the effects of spin–orbit interactions for the reactions. 

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2023. Vol. 158, no 1, article id 014305
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-214335DOI: 10.1063/5.0131749ISI: 000907681900002PubMedID: 36610951Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85145606568OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-214335DiVA, id: diva2:1734250
Available from: 2023-02-06 Created: 2023-02-06 Last updated: 2023-10-05Bibliographically approved
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1. Coupling mechanisms in scattering reactions involving small molecular systems
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2023 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
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In this thesis, theoretical ab initio treatments of two-body molecular collision reactions are studied, having in common that the interaction region including all coupling mechanisms driving the reaction amounts to a molecular description. The main goal is to gain an understanding in the underlying coupling mechanisms involved in these reactions.The thesis is divided into three projects. In project one, mutual neutralization in collisions of Na+ + I, C+ + Cl and H++H are studied, with an emphasis on the inclusion of spin-orbit and/or rotational couplings which are most often neglected for in mutual neutralization. Scattering quantities are computed ab initio and compared to approximative models and experimental results. In project two, the problem of asymptotic non-adiabatic couplings is studied. Specifically, the inclusion of higher order terms in the reprojection method is shown to give a much faster convergence of the relevant scattering cross section. The method is here applied to mutual neutralization in H++Hcollisions and inelastic scattering in Li+Na and H+H collisions. In project three, a generalized pseudo Jahn-Teller model is introduced an applied to electronic resonant states of H3. Model parameters are extracted using electron scattering calculations resultingin a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian describing the system. The topology of the resulting complex adiabatic potential energy surfaces, including complex conical intersections and non-Hermitian degeneracies, are furthermore studied and classified.

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Stockholm: Department of Physics, Stockholm University, 2023. p. 138
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Physical Sciences
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Theoretical Physics
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urn:nbn:se:su:diva-221876 (URN)978-91-8014-520-6 (ISBN)978-91-8014-521-3 (ISBN)
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2023-11-20, sal FA32, AlbaNova universitetscentrum, Roslagstullsbacken 21, Stockholm, 13:00 (English)
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Available from: 2023-10-26 Created: 2023-10-05 Last updated: 2023-10-20Bibliographically approved

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