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| ID:
576148.0,
MPI für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation / Hydrodynamik und Strukturbildung |
| Photodissociation of N2O: Energy partitioning |
| Authors: | Schmidt, J. A.; Johnson, M. S.; Lorenz, U.; McBane, G. C.; Schinke, R. | | Language: | English | | Date of Publication (YYYY-MM-DD): | 2011-07-14 | | Title of Journal: | Journal of Chemical Physics | | Journal Abbrev.: | J. Chem. Phys. | | Volume: | 135 | | Issue / Number: | 2 | | Start Page: | 024311-1 | | End Page: | 024311-10 | | Review Status: | Peer-review | | Audience: | Experts Only | | Abstract / Description: | The energy partitioning in the UV photodissociation of N2O is investigated by means of quantum mechanical wave packet and classical trajectory calculations using recently calculated potential energy surfaces. Vibrational excitation of N2 is weak at the onset of the absorption spectrum, but becomes stronger with increasing photon energy. Since the NNO equilibrium angles in the ground and the excited state differ by about 70 degrees, the molecule experiences an extraordinarily large torque during fragmentation producing N2 in very high rotational states. The vibrational and rotational distributions obtained from the quantum mechanical and the classical calculations agree remarkably well. The shape of the rotational distributions is semi-quantitatively explained by a two-dimensional version of the reflection principle. The calculated rotational distribution for excitation with lambda = 204 nm and the translational energy distribution for 193 nm agree well with experimental results, except for the tails of the experimental distributions corresponding to excitation of the highest rotational states. Inclusion of nonadiabatic transitions from the excited to the ground electronic state at relatively large N2O separations, studied by trajectory surface hopping, improves the agreement at high j. | | Free Keywords: | configuration-interaction calculation, absorption cross-sections, nitrous-oxide N2O, Schrodinger-equation, triatomic-distributions, dissociation | | External Publication Status: | published | | Document Type: | Article |
| Communicated by: | Folkert Müller-Hoissen | | Affiliations: | MPI für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation/Hydrodynamik und Strukturbildung
| | External Affiliations: | Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark;
HASYLAB at DESY, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany;
Department of Chemistry, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan 49401, USA
| | Identifiers: | DOI:10.1063/1.3602324
ISSN:0021-9606 | |
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