Free rotor model or rigid rotor model for CH₃F-Ne complex and comparison with other CH₃F-rare gas systems

Abstract

The assignment of the rovibrational spectra of molecule-Ne complexes is always a challenge to study van der Waals systems, since they usually exhibit behavior intermediate between free rotor and rigid rotor. In this paper, the microwave and infrared spectra of CH₃F-Ne, a model system for symmetric-top-atom dimer, were firstly predicted and analyzed based on the four-dimensional ab initio intermolecular potential energy surfaces(PESs), which explicitly incorporate the v ₃(C—F) stretch normal model coordinate of the CH₃F monomer. Analytic three-dimensional PESs were obtained by least-squares fitting vibrationally averaged interaction energies for v ₃(CH₃F)=0 and 1 to the Morse/long-range(MLR) potential function for symmetry top impurity with atom model. These PESs fitting to 2340 points have root-mean-square(RMS) deviations of 0.07 cm^–1, and require only 167 parameters. Based on the analytical vibrationally averaged PESs, the rovibrational energy levels were calculated by employing Lanczos algorithm, with combined radial discrete variable representation and parity-adapted angular finite basis representation. Based on the wavefunction analysis and comparison of CH₃F-Ne with CH₃F-He and CH₃F-Ar complexes, the bound states were assigned. Spectral parameters for CH₃F-Rg(Rg: rare gas, Rg=He, Ne, Ar) complexes were fitted and discussed. Temperature dependent transition intensities for CH₃F-Ne were also reported and analyzed. The complete microwave and infrared spectra information for CH₃F-Ne made it possible to provide important guidance for future experimental spectroscopic assignments.

Keywords

Morse/long-range model / Rovibrational spectrum / Symmetry-top molecule / CH₃F-Ne

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