Joint experimental and theoretical study on vibrational excitation cross sections for electron collisions with diacetylene.

We have measured and calculated differential and integral cross sections for elastic and vibrationally inelastic electron scattering by diacetylene molecules at electron energies from 0.5 to 20 eV in the whole range of scattering angles from 0 to 180°. The calculations were carried out using the discrete momentum representation method (DMR), which is based on the two-channel Lippmann-Schwinger equation in the momentum space.

Determination of the resonance energy and width of the (2)B(2g) shape resonance of ethylene with the method of analytical continuation in the coupling constant.

The method of analytical continuation in the coupling constant, which allows us to determine the energy and width of a shape resonance, has been applied to the study of the (2)B2g shape resonance of ethylene. The procedure was done in two steps. In the first step, we used commercially available quantum-chemistry programs to calculate the electronic energy of a neutral molecule and of a negative ion.

Photoabsorption spectrum of helium trimer cation--theoretical modeling.

The photoabsorption spectrum of He3(+) is calculated for two semiempirical models of intracluster interactions and compared with available experimental data reported in the middle UV range [H. Haberland and B. von Issendorff, J.

Theoretical modeling of ionization energies of argon clusters: nuclear delocalization effects.

Temperature dependence of vertical ionization energies is modeled for small argon clusters (N ≤ 13) using classical parallel-tempering Monte Carlo methods and extended interaction models based on the diatomics-in-molecules approach. Quantum effects at the zero temperature are also discussed in terms of zero-point nuclear vibrations, either at the harmonic approximation level or at the fully anharmonic level using the diffusion Monte Carlo calculations. Both approaches lead to a considerable improvement of the theoretical predictions of argon clusters ionization energies and represent a realistic way of modeling of ionization energies for weakly bound and floppy complexes in general.

Structural changes in the water tetramer. A combined Monte Carlo and DFT study.

The heat capacity curve of the water tetramer has been calculated at various levels of theory and over a broad range of temperatures, T = 50-200 K. Parallel-tempering and multiple-histogram Monte Carlo methods have been used and combined with the Density Functional Theory calculations of intra-cluster interactions via the Boltzmann-reweighting approach. It is demonstrated that such a combination can yield well converged thermodynamic data even for a modest number of sample configurations, which makes the methodology particularly appropriate for the inclusion of quantum chemistry calculations in Monte Carlo simulations.

Thermal averaging of the indirect nuclear spin-spin coupling constants of ammonia: the importance of the large amplitude inversion mode.

Analytic internal-coordinate representations are reported for two accurate ab initio spin-spin coupling surfaces of the ammonia molecule, (1)J ((15)N,H) and (2)J(H,H). Calculations were carried out at the level of the second-order polarization propagator approximation involving coupled-cluster singles and doubles amplitudes (CCSD) and using a large specialized basis set, for a total of 841 different geometries corresponding to 2523 distinct points on the (1)J ((15)N,H) and (2)J(H,H) surfaces. The results were fitted to power series expansions truncated after the fourth-order terms.

Modeling of HeN+ clusters. II. Calculation of He3+ vibrational spectrum.

We have computed the vibrational spectrum of the helium ionized trimer He(3)(+) using three different potential energy surfaces [D. T. Chang and G.