The effect of Diabatisation is reported in the excited argon isomers using the Diatomic-In-Molecules (DIM) method. In previous work using DIM, the lowest energy isomers of ArN∗ were shown as Ar3∗−ArN−3, however, using the Hole-Particle-Psedopotential (HPP) method, it was shown that the excitation is localised over dimer not trimer; Ar2∗−ArN−2. In this work we improve the DIM calculations by including previously ignored strongly avoided crossing between 3p4s and 3p4p 1,3Σ states.
@article{arxiv.2409.06484,
title = {An Update to Isomers of Rydberg Excitations in Argon Clusters},
author = {Mukul Dhiman and Benoit Gervais},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.06484},
year = {2026}
}