Model potential calculations of the Na-He system

Theoretical Investigation of the Electronic Structure and Spectra of Mg(2+)He and Mg(+)He

The ground and many excited states of the Mg(+)He van der Waals molecular system have been explored using a one-electron pseudopotential approach. In this approach, effective potentials are used to consider the Mg(2+) core and the electron-He effects. Furthermore, a core-core interaction is included. This has reduced the number of active electrons of the Mg(+)He, to be considered in the calculation, to a single valence electron. This has permitted to use extended Gaussian basis sets for Mg and He. Therefore, the potentianl energy and dipole moments calculations are carried out at the Hartree-Fock level of theory, and the spin-orbit effect is included using a semiclassical approach. The core-core interaction for the Mg(2+)He ground state is included using accurate CCSD(T) calculations. The spectroscopic constants of the Mg(+)He electronic states are extracted and compared with the existing theoretical works, where very good agreement is observed. Moreover, the transition dipole function has been determined for a large and dense grid of internuclear distances including the spin-orbit effect.

Investigating the M*He exciplexes, M={Li,Na,K,Rb,Cs,Fr}: Density functional approach

Potential curves for the ground and the first lowest excited states of the MHe (where M={Li,Na,K,Rb,Cs,Fr}) exciplexes are calculated using the density functional theory (DFT) formalism. Relativistic calculations are carried out with and without spin-orbit (SO) coupling effect, using a zeroth order regular approximation (ZORA) approach. The depth De and position Re parameters of the potential curves for the case without spin-orbit effect are presented and compared with other works. Potential curves for Li-He, Cs-He, and Fr-He without spin-orbit effect and Cs-He with the spin-orbit effect are shown. A bond analysis is presented too, since the central interest of the study of the exciplexes is the nature and the existence of the bonding states that are the origin of emission spectra observed experimentally for these systems.