A full-dimension intra- and inter-molecular ab initio potential energy surface and predicted infrared spectra for H2O-He

Abstract

A full-dimension intra- and inter-molecular ab initio potential energy surface (PES) for H2O-He, which explicitly incorporates dependence on the intra-molecular (Q1,Q2,Q3) normal-mode coordinates of the H2O monomer has been calculated in this work. In addition, three analytic vibrational-quantum-state-specific PESs are obtained by least-squares fitting vibrationally averaged interaction energies for the (v1,v2,v3)=(0,0,0),(0,0,1) and (0,1,0) states of H2O to the three-dimensional Morse/long-range potential function. Each vibrationally averaged PES fitted to 578 points has root-mean-square (rms) deviation smaller than 0.1cm−1, and required only 53 parameters. With the 3D PESs of the H2O-He dimer system, we employed the combined radial discrete variable representation/angular finite basis representation method and Lanczos algorithm to calculate rovibrational energy levels. The rovibrational spectra and their relative intensities for the H2O-He complex have been predicted for the first time.