Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of the Li4F4 cluster

Abstract

Molecular dynamics simulations have been performed directly on the ab initio potential energy surface of Li4F4, which was generated within the Hartree-Fock approximation using a Gaussian basis set (split valence contraction). Trajectories at different temperatures yield the temperature dependence of the infrared spectra and the photoelectron spectra. For the infrared spectra comparison is made with MD results using a shell model ion pair potential function.