Date of Award
Spring 2009
Document Type
Thesis - Restricted
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Chemistry
First Advisor
Babikov, Dmitri
Second Advisor
Reid, Scott
Third Advisor
Ryan, Michael
Abstract
The ozone molecule (03) plays an important role in atmospheric chemistry but the reaction which forms ozone remains a challenge to the chemical physics community. In order to simplify treatment of the ozone forming reaction, a reduced dimensionality model is proposed, where the angle between two oxygen bonds is relaxed for each pair of values of the bond lengths. This approach produces a two-dimensional potential energy surface which retains all major features of the ozone molecule it also reproduces qualitatively the spectrum of van der Waals states which is important for the ozone formation process and reproduces exactly the value of zero-point energy change, which is important for the anomalous isotope effect. Semi-classical wave packet method is used to propagate wave packets on this potential energy surface. The autocorrelation functions are computed for a number of the initial wave packets which are placed in two isotopically different channels. Half-spectra are analyzed to gain a qualitative insight. The filter diagonalization method is used to extract energies and widths of the van der Waals states. For these states the wave functions are computed and assignments of the quantum numbers are carried out. Two progressions of the local (stretching) modes are identified. The results of this reduced dimensionality model are compared with fully-dimensional results and the opportunities for further development are discussed.
Recommended Citation
Jiang, Leidi, "Semi-Classical Wave Packet Study of Van Der Waals States in Ozone" (2009). Master's Theses (1922-2009) Access restricted to Marquette Campus. 2529.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/theses/2529