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The rotating Morse potential model for diatomic molecules in the J-matrix representation: II. The S-matrix approach

I Nasser1, M S Abdelmonem1, H Bahlouli1 and A D Alhaidari2

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This is the second article in which we study the rotating Morse potential model for diatomic molecules using the tridiagonal J-matrix approach. Here, we further improve the accuracy of computing the bound states and resonance energies for this potential model from the poles of the S-matrix for arbitrary angular momentum. The calculation is performed using an infinite square integrable basis that supports a tridiagonal matrix representation for the reference Hamiltonian, which is included in the computations analytically without truncation. Our method has been applied to both the regular and inverted Morse potential with favourable results in comparison with available numerical data. We have also shown that the present method adds a few significant digits to the accuracy obtained from the finite dimensional approach (e.g. the complex rotation method). Moreover, it allows us to easily handle both analytic and non-analytic potentials as well as 1/r singular potentials.


PACS

34.20.-b Interatomic and intermolecular potentials and forces, potential energy surfaces for collisions

31.15.-p Calculations and mathematical techniques in atomic and molecular physics

33.20.Sn Rotational analysis

33.15.Mt Rotation, vibration, and vibration-rotation constants

Subjects

Atomic and molecular physics

Computational physics

Dates

Issue 21 (14 November 2008)

Received 6 July 2008, in final form 21 September 2008

Published 13 October 2008



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