ABSTRACT:A realization of the raising and lowering operators for the Morse potential is presented. It is shown that these operators satisfy the commutation relations for the SU(2) group. Closed analytical expressions are obtained for the matrix elements of different operators such as 1/y and d/dy. The harmonic limit of the SU(2) operators is also studied and an approach previously proposed to calculate the Franck-Condon factors is discussed.
We present an algebraic approach to describe the vibrational excitations of polyatomic molecules. The model is based on the coupling of anharmonic oscillators and is characterized by combining the strengths of the Lie-algebraic methods with those of point symmetry techniques. We illustrate the algebraic method for tetrahedral molecules and apply it to the construction of the complete vibrational spectra of methane up to four quanta.
A connection between an algebraic approach to the dynamics of triatomic molecules based on the U (2) × U (3) × U (2) Lie algebra and the traditional description in configuration space is presented. The connection is established in four steps. First, the molecular Hamiltonian is expanded in symmetrized local coordinates. Second, the Hamiltonian is transformed into an algebraic representation by introducing the realization of coordinates and momenta in terms of bosonic creation and annihilation operators of normal character. The third step is to perform a canonical transformation applied to the bosons associated with the stretching degrees of freedom in order to obtain a unified representation in a local scheme. Finally, an anharmonization procedure is applied to identify the U (2) × U (3) × U (2) dynamical algebra. The main advantage of the proposed approach is that it provides relations between the spectroscopic parameters and the molecular structure and force constants. As an application, the analysis of the vibrational excitations of CO 2 in its ground electronic state is considered. In this scheme, each stretching degree of freedom is identified as an interacting Morse oscillator, with an associated U (2) dynamical algebra, and the doubly degenerate bending degree of freedom is modelled with a U (3) dynamical algebra, obtaining as a final result a reasonable set of force constants.
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