Published ab initio and pseudopotential calculations for the dialkali halide systems suggest that the preferred colinear geometry is for the metal to approach the metal end of the alkali halide. Here, ab initio calculations on the Li 2 F system reveal that the well depth on the halide side in this radical is much deeper and is a local saddle point associated with the ionic nonlinear global minima. Although many features of the pseudopotential surfaces are confirmed, significant differences are apparent including the existence of a linear excited A 2 ⌺ u + state instead of a triangular one, a considerably deeper global minimum some 50% lower in energy and a close approach between the X 2 A 1 and the A 2 ⌺ u + states, with the A 2 ⌺ u + minimum 87 kJ mol −1 below the ground state asymptote. All the results can be rationalised as the avoided crossings between a long range, covalent potential dominant within the LiLiF geometry and an ionic state that forms the global minimum. Calculations on the third 2 AЈ potential indicate that even for Li+ LiF collisions at ultracold temperatures the collision dynamics could involve as many as three electronic states.
lost honour. The most tantalizing portions of the book concern precisely these relationships with men in Paris who had joined the plot to overthrow Hitler in 1944. Ju¨nger, true to form, stayed well away from the heart of the plot while occasionally meeting with the one or another of the plotters. It was just as well. His participation could hardly have made any difference. Far more powerful and influential men than he had joined and still could not make it work. But because Ju¨nger knew so many of them in Paris, we are afforded a glimpse into the moral calculus that led to the rebellion.What do we gain from this book that we wouldn't from the fuller biographies of Ju¨nger that treat his years in Paris as but a short chapter in an extremely long life
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