@article{MahapatraZuhrtVetteretal.1996, author = {Mahapatra, Susanta and Zuhrt, Christian and Vetter, Reinhard and Nguyen, Huu Tong and Ritschel, Thomas and Z{\"u}licke, Lutz}, title = {Spectroscopy and intramalocular dynamics of collinear N2H+ on a new potential energy surface}, series = {Technical Report / Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Potsdam}, volume = {1996, 03}, journal = {Technical Report / Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Potsdam}, publisher = {Univ.}, address = {Potsdam}, pages = {28, [8] S. : graph. Darst.}, year = {1996}, language = {en} } @article{MahapatraVetterZuhrtetal.1997, author = {Mahapatra, Susanta and Vetter, Reinhard and Zuhrt, Christian and Nguyen, Huu Tong and Ritschel, Thomas and Z{\"u}licke, Lutz}, title = {Bound states and time-dependent dynamics of the N2H+ molecular ion in its ground electronic state. I. 2D treatment}, year = {1997}, language = {en} } @article{GianturcoKumarVetteretal.1997, author = {Gianturco, Franco A. and Kumar, Sanjay and Vetter, Reinhard and Ritschel, Thomas and Z{\"u}licke, Lutz}, title = {Interaction anisotropy and vibrational excitation in proton scattering from N2(1sigma g+)}, year = {1997}, language = {en} } @book{RitschelMahapatraZuelicke1997, author = {Ritschel, Thomas and Mahapatra, Susanta and Z{\"u}licke, Lutz}, title = {Classical trajectory calculations for inelastic scattering of protons by N2 Molecules}, series = {Technical Report / Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Potsdam}, volume = {1997, 01}, journal = {Technical Report / Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Potsdam}, publisher = {Univ.}, address = {Potsdam}, pages = {11 S., [10] S. : graph. Darst.}, year = {1997}, language = {en} } @article{MahapatraVetterZuhrtetal.1998, author = {Mahapatra, Susanta and Vetter, Reinhard and Zuhrt, Christian and Nguyen, Huu Tong and Ritschel, Thomas and Z{\"u}licke, Lutz}, title = {Ground state potential energy surface, 3D time-dependent intramolecular dynamics and vibrational states of the N2H+ molecular ion}, year = {1998}, language = {en} } @article{RitschelMahapatraZuelicke2001, author = {Ritschel, Thomas and Mahapatra, Susanta and Z{\"u}licke, Lutz}, title = {Quasiclassical dynamics of proton scattering by N2 on an improved ab initio potential energy surface}, year = {2001}, abstract = {An improved analytical representation of the ground electronic potential energy surface (PES) of the (H+, N2) system is generated using the ab initio data reported in our earlier work. The new analytical PES function describes adequately the global behavior and in particular the angular dependence of the interaction as well as the long-range part so that it is amenable to scattering studies. We investigate the elastic and inelastic H+-N2 scattering dynamics on this PES by the quasiclassical trajectory method for center-of-mass collision energies in the range 29-144 eV. The trajectory results thus obtained are compared with the available experimental findings and with recent quantum-mechanical (vibrational close-coupling rotational infinite-order sudden) results. Despite some differences, the experimental data are well reproduced by the present calculations.}, language = {en} } @article{MahapatraRitschel2003, author = {Mahapatra, Susanta and Ritschel, Thomas}, title = {Multistate vibronic interactions and nonadiabatic wave packet dynamics in the second photoelectron band of chlorine dioxide}, year = {2003}, abstract = {We report theoretical investigations on the second photoelectron band of chlorine dioxide molecule by ab initio quantum dynamical methods. This band exhibits a highly complex structure and represents a composite portrait of five excited energetically close-lying electronic states of ClO2+. Much of this complexity is likely to be arising due to strong vibronic interactions among these electronic states - which we address and examine herein. The near equilibrium MRCI potential energy surfaces (PESs) of these five cationic states reported by Peterson and Werner [J. Chem. Phys. 99 (1993) 302] for the C2v configuration, are extended for the Cs geometry assuming a harmonic vibration along the asymmetric stretching mode. The strength of the vibronic coupling parameters of the Hamiltonian are calculated by ab initio CASSCF-MRCI method and conical intersections of the PESs are established. The diabatic Hamiltonian matrix is constructed within a linear vibronic coupling scheme and the resulting PESs are employed in the nuclear dynamical simulations, carried out with the aid of a time-dependent wave packet approach. Companion calculations are performed for transitions to the uncoupled electronic states in order to reveal explicitly the impact of the nonadiabatic coupling on the photoelectron dynamics. The theoretical findings are in good accord with the experimental observations. The femtosecond nonradiative decay dynamics of ClO2+ excited electronic states mediated by conical intersections is also examined and discussed.}, language = {en} } @article{VetterRitschelZuelickeetal.2003, author = {Vetter, Reinhard and Ritschel, Thomas and Z{\"u}licke, Lutz and Peterson, Kirk A.}, title = {Theoretical Study of the Low-Lying Electronically Excited States of OBrO}, year = {2003}, abstract = {Motivated by the possible importance of OBrO in atmospheric photochemistry, multireference configuration interaction calculations of the low-lying excited states were carried out to obtain information about the electronic vertical spectrum up to excitation energies of about 6 eV from the ground state, including the transition dipole moments, and about possible photodissociation pathways, based on one-dimensional cuts through the potential energy surfaces for dissociation into BrO + O and Br + O2, respectively. In addition, for probing the angle dependence the bending potentials were also calculated.}, language = {en} } @article{RitschelZuelickeKuntz2004, author = {Ritschel, Thomas and Z{\"u}licke, Lutz and Kuntz, Philip J.}, title = {Cationic Van-der-Waals complexes : theoretical study of Ar2H+ structure and stability}, year = {2004}, abstract = {The electronic and geometric structure, stability and molecular properties of the cationic van-der-Waals complex Ar2H+ in its ground electronic state are studied by means of two ab-initio quantum-chemical approaches: conventional configuration interaction (multi-reference and coupled cluster methods) and a diatomics-in-molecules model with ab-initio input data.}, language = {en} } @article{RitschelKuntzZulicke2005, author = {Ritschel, Thomas and Kuntz, Philip J. and Zulicke, Lutz}, title = {Structure and dynamics of cationic van-der-Waals clusters : I. Binding and structure of protonated argon clusters}, year = {2005}, abstract = {The geometric structure and bonding properties of medium-sized ArnH+ clusters (n = 2-35), in which a proton is wrapped up in a number of Ar atoms, are investigated by applying a diatomics-in-molecules (DIM) model with ab-initio input data generated by means of multi-reference configuration-interaction (MRCI) computations. For the smaller complexes, n = 2-7, cross-checking calculations employing the coupled-cluster approach (CCSD) with the same one-electron atomic basis set as for the input data calculations (aug-cc-pVTZ from Dunning), show good agreement thus justifying the extension of the DIM study to larger n. Local minima of the multi-dimensional potential-energy surfaces (PES) are determined by combining a Monte-Carlo sampling followed, for each generated point, by a steepest-descent optimization procedure. For the electronic ground state of the ArnH+ clusters, the global minimum (corresponding to the most stable structure of the cluster) as well as secondary minima are found and analyzed. The structural and energetic data obtained reveal the building-up regularities for the most stable structures and make it possible to formulate a simple increment scheme. The low-lying excited states are also calculated by the DIM approach; they all turn out to be globally repulsive}, language = {en} }