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Determination of Vibrational Energy Levels and Transition Dipole Moments of CO₂ Molecules by Density Functional Theory
Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy
  • Zhi Liang
  • Hai-Lung Tsai, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

An efficient method is presented to calculate the intra-molecular potential energies and electrical dipole moments of CO2 molecules at the electronic ground state by solving the Kohn-Sham (KS) equation for a total of 101 992 nuclear configurations. The projector-augmented wave (PAW) exchange-correlation potential functionals and plane wave (PW) basis functions were used in solving the KS equation. The calculated intra-molecular potential function was then included in the pure vibrational Schrödinger equation to determine the vibrational energy eigen values and eigen functions. The vibrational wave functions combined with the calculated dipole moment function were used to determine the transition dipole moments. The calculated results were compared with the experimental data.

Department(s)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Sponsor(s)
United States. Department of the Navy
Keywords and Phrases
  • CO2,
  • DFT,
  • PW Basis Functions,
  • Transition Dipole Moment
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2008 Elsevier, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
12-1-2008
Publication Date
01 Dec 2008
Citation Information
Zhi Liang and Hai-Lung Tsai. "Determination of Vibrational Energy Levels and Transition Dipole Moments of CO₂ Molecules by Density Functional Theory" Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy (2008) ISSN: 0022-2852
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/zhi-liang/1/