Adiabatic potential energy curves of 12 doublet and quartet lowest spinless electronic states of the molecule CsO have been investigated via ab initio CASSCF and MRCI (doublet and quartet excitations with Davidson correction) calculations. The spectroscopic constants such as vibrational harmonic frequency ω e, the internuclear distance at equilibrium R e, the rotational constant B e, and the electronic transition energy T e of the ground and the excited electronic states have been calculated by fitting the energy values around the equilibrium position to a polynomial in terms of the internuclear distance. The comparison of these values to those available in the literature shows a good agreement.
The alkali metal oxides have been the subject of different theoretical and experimental studies in order to specify their electronic ground state. These studies focused on the transition between the 2 electronic states 2Π and 2Σ+ [
In the present work 12 low-lying doublet and quartet electronic states of CsO molecule have been investigated by using the ab initio method. The potential energy curves (PECs) together with the transition energy with respect to the minimum energy for the ground state Te, the equilibrium internuclear distance Re, the harmonic frequency ωe, and the rotational constant Be have been obtained for the considered electronic states. Ten electronic states have been investigated here for the first time.
In the present work we study the low-lying doublet and quartet electronic states of the molecule CsO using state averaged complete active space self consistent field (CASSCF) procedure followed by a multireference configuration interaction (MRDSCI with Davidson correction) treatment for the electron correlation. The entire CASSCF configuration space was used as the reference in the MRDSCI calculations, which were done via the computational chemistry program MOLPRO [
In the fourth basis set the 55 electrons of the cesium atom are considered using a contracted ECP46MWB basis set for s and p functions, while the oxygen species is treated as a system of 8 electrons by using the VDZ basis set for s, p, and d functions. In the fifth basis set, the 55 electrons of the cesium atom are considered using a contracted ECP46MWB basis set for s and p functions, while the oxygen species is treated as a system of 8 electrons by using the aug-cc-pCVDZ basis set for s, p, and d functions.
Among the 63 electrons explicitly considered for CsO (55 electrons for Cs and 8 for O) 46 inner electrons were frozen in subsequent calculations so that 17 valence electrons were explicitly treated. All computations were performed in the C2v point group. Using the first basis set ECP46MWB, the potential energy curves of 12 low-lying electronic states of the molecule CsO were generated using the MRSDCI for 350 internuclear distances calculations in the range 1.5Å ≤ Re ≤ 5Å in the representation 2s+1Λ(±) where we assumed that, the CsO molecule is mainly ionic around the equilibrium position. These PECs for the different symmetries are given in
The spectroscopic constant ωe, re, Be, and Te have been calculated by fitting the energy values around the equilibrium position to a polynomial in terms of the internuclear distance. These values are given in
excellent agreement is obtained by using the first, fourth and fifth used basis sets with the relative differences 0.32% ([
Our calculated values of Te by using basis one are in very good agreement with those given in [
States | Te (cm−1) | dTe/Te % | ωe ×103 (cm−1) | dωe/ωe% | Re (Å) | dRe/Re % | Be (cm−1) |
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X2Σ+ | 0 | 0.323(a) | 2.434(a) | 0.199(a) | |||
0.325(b) | 2.561(b) | 0.179(b) | |||||
0.372(c) | 2.617(c) | 0.172(c) | |||||
0.31(d) | 2.5(d) | 0.188(d) | |||||
0.308(e) | 2.478(e) | 0.192(e) | |||||
0.334(f) | 3.2(a) 2.6(b) 11.3(c) 7.1(d) 7.7(e) | 2.425(f) | 0.37(a) 5.6(b) 7.9(c) 3.0(d) 2.1(e) | ||||
2.3(g) | 5.8(a) 11.3(b) 13.7(c) 8.6(d) 7.7(e) | ||||||
0.34(h) | 5(a) 4.4(b) 9.4(c) 8.8(d) 9.4(e) | 2.337(h) | 4.1(a) 9.5(b) 11.9(c) 6.9(d) 6.03(e) | ||||
2.67(k) | 8.8(a) 4.08(b) 1.9(c) 6.3(d) 7.19 (e) | ||||||
2.47(l) | 1.45(a) 3.68(b) 5.95(c) 1.21(d) 0.32(e) | ||||||
(1)2Π | 1237.77(a) | 0.297(a) | 2.604(a) | 0.174(a) | |||
1644.8(c) | 0.403(c) | 2.78(c) | 0.152(c) | ||||
1606.22(e) | 0.27(e) | 2.672(e) | 0.165(e) | ||||
1225(g) | 1.04(a) 34.2(c) 31.12(e) | ||||||
1100 ± 200(i) | 4.7(a) 26.5(c) 23.5(e) | ||||||
1319(h) | 6.1(a) 24.7(c) 21.7(e) | 0.324(h) | 8.3(a) 24.3(c) 16.6(e) | 2.526(h) | 3.08(a) 10.05(c) 5.7(e) | ||
0.319(f) | 6.8(a) 26.3(c) 15.3(e) | 2.561(f) | 1.6(a) 8.5(c) 4.3(e) |
0.312(l) | 4.8(a) 29.1(c) 13.4(e) | 2.64(l) | 1.3(a) 5.3(c) 1.2(e) | ||||
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(1)4Σ− | 21503.33(a) | 0.072(a) | 3.79(a) | 0.078(a) | |||
(2)2Π | 25262.41(a) | 0.092(a) | 3.066(a) | 0.125(a) | |||
(2)4Σ− | 32159.09(a) | 0.179(a) | 3.425(a) | 0.172(a) |
aPresent work using for the 55 electrons of the cesium atom a contracted ECP46MWB basis set for s and p functions, while the oxygen species is treated as a system of 8 electrons by using the aug-cc-pCV5Z basis set for s, p, and d functions. bPresent work using for the 55 electrons of the cesium atom a contracted ECP46MWB basis set for s and p functions ,while the oxygen species is treated as a system of 8 electrons by using the 6-311++G basis set for s, p, and d functions. cPresent work using for the 55 electrons of the cesium atom a contracted Hay-Wadt VDZ (n+1) ECP basis set for s and p functions ,while the oxygen species is treated as a system of 8 electrons by using the aug-cc-pCV5Z basis set for s, p, and d functions. dPresent work using for the 55 electrons of the cesium atom a contracted ECP46MWB basis set for s and p functions ,while the oxygen species is treated as a system of 8 electrons by using the VDZ basis set for s, p, and d functions. ePresent work using for the 55 electrons of the cesium atom a contracted ECP46MWB basis set for s and p functions ,while the oxygen species is treated as a system of 8 electrons by using the aug-cc-pCVDZ basis set for s, p, and d functions. kRef. [
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In the present work, the ab initio investigation for the low-lying doublet and quartet electronic states of the CsO molecule has been performed via CASSCF/MRCI method using five different basis sets. The potential energy curves have been determined along with the spectroscopic constants Te, Re, ωe and the rotational constant Be for these states. The calculation has been done by using 5 different basis sets. The comparison of our results with those obtained theoretically in literature shows a very good accuracy. Ten new electronic states have been investigated in the present work for the first time.
DianaKaeen,MahmoudKorek,Saleh NabhanAbdulal, (2015) Electronic Structure of the Cesium Oxide Molecule CsO. Journal of Modern Physics,06,1889-1894. doi: 10.4236/jmp.2015.613194