A beyond Born–Oppenheimer treatment of C6H6+ radical cation for diabatic surfaces: Photoelectron spectra of its neutral analog using time-dependent discrete variable representation

We employ theoretically “exact” and numerically “accurate” Beyond Born–Oppenheimer (BBO) treatment to construct diabatic potential energy surfaces (PESs) of the benzene radical cation (C6H6+) for the first time and explore the workability of the time-dependent discrete variable representation (TDDVR...

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Published in:The Journal of chemical physics 2021-03, Vol.154 (9), p.094306-094306
Main Authors: Mukherjee, Soumya, Ravi, Satyam, Naskar, Koushik, Sardar, Subhankar, Adhikari, Satrajit
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adiabatic flow
Benzene
Cations
Couplings
Electron states
Electronic structure
Hilbert space
Hydrocarbons
Intersections
Jahn-Teller effect
Mathematical analysis
Photoelectrons
Potential energy
Representations
Spectra
Time dependence
Workability
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Summary:We employ theoretically “exact” and numerically “accurate” Beyond Born–Oppenheimer (BBO) treatment to construct diabatic potential energy surfaces (PESs) of the benzene radical cation (C6H6+) for the first time and explore the workability of the time-dependent discrete variable representation (TDDVR) method for carrying out dynamical calculations to evaluate the photoelectron (PE) spectra of its neutral analog. Ab initio adiabatic PESs and nonadiabatic coupling terms are computed over a series of pairwise normal modes, which exhibit rich nonadiabatic interactions starting from Jahn–Teller interactions and accidental conical intersections/seams to pseudo Jahn–Teller couplings. Once the electronic structure calculation is completed on the low-lying five doublet electronic states (X̃2E1g, B̃2E2g, and C̃2A2u) of the cationic species, diabatization is carried out employing the adiabatic-to-diabatic transformation (ADT) equations for the five-state sub-Hilbert space to compute highly accurate ADT angles, and thereby, single-valued, smooth, symmetric, and continuous diabatic PESs and couplings are constructed. Subsequently, such surface matrices are used to perform multi-state multi-mode nuclear dynamics for simulating PE spectra of benzene. Our theoretical findings clearly depict that the spectra for X̃2E1g and B̃2E2g−C̃2A2u states obtained from BBO treatment and TDDVR dynamics exhibit reasonably good agreement with the experimental results as well as with the findings of other theoretical approaches.
ISSN:0021-9606
1089-7690
DOI:10.1063/5.0040361