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Vibrational infrared and Raman spectrum of HCOOH from variational computations

Chemical Physics 2023-06-21 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

All vibrational energies of the (trans-, cis-, delocalized-) formic acid molecule are converged up to 4500 cm1^{-1} beyond the zero-point vibrational energy with the GENIUSH-Smolyak variational approach and using an ab initio potential energy surface [D. P. Tew and W. Mizukami, J. Phys. Chem. A, 120, 9815-9828 (2016)]. Full-dimensional dipole and polarizability surfaces are fitted to points computed at the CCSD/aug-cc-pVTZ level of theory. Then, body-fixed vibrational dipole and polarizability transition moments are evaluated and used to simulate jet-cooled infrared and Raman spectra of HCOOH. The benchmark-quality vibrational energy, transition moment, and wave function list will be used in further work in comparison with vibrational experiments, and in further rovibrational computations.

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@article{arxiv.2302.01414,
  title  = {Vibrational infrared and Raman spectrum of HCOOH from variational computations},
  author = {Gustavo Avila and Alberto Martín Santa Daría and Edit Mátyus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.01414},
  year   = {2023}
}