Five Electronic State Beyond Born-Oppenheimer Equations and Their Applications to Nitrate and Benzene Radical Cation.

Abstract

We present explicit form of Adiabatic to Diabatic Transformation (ADT) equations and expressions of non-adiabatic coupling terms (NACTs) for a coupled five-state electronic manifold in terms of ADT angles between electronic wave functions. ADT matrices eliminate the numerical instability arising from singularity of NACTs and transform the adiabatic Schrödinger equation to its diabatic form. Two real molecular systems NO3 and C6H6+ (Bz+) are selectively chosen for the demonstration of workability of those equations. We examine the NACTs among the lowest five electronic states of the NO3 radical [X̃2A2' (12B2), Ã2E″ (12A2 and 12B1) and B̃2E' (12A1 and 22B2)], in which all types of non-adiabatic interactions, that is, Jahn-Teller (JT) interactions, Pseudo Jahn-Teller (PJT) interactions, and accidental conical intersections (CIs) are present. On the other hand, lowest five electronic states of Bz+ [X̃2E1g (12B3g and 12B2g), B̃2E2g (12Ag and 12B1g), and C̃2A2u (12B1u)] depict similar kind of complex feature of non-adiabatic effects. For NO3 radical, the two components of degenerate in-plane asymmetric stretching mode are taken as a plane of nuclear configuration space (CS), whereas in case of Bz+, two pairs are chosen: One is the pair of components of degenerate in-plane asymmetric stretching mode, and the other one is constituted with one of the components each from out-of-plane degenerate bend and in-plane degenerate asymmetric stretching modes. We calculate ab initio adiabatic potential energy surfaces (PESs) and NACTs among the lowest five electronic states at the CASSCF level using MOLPRO quantum chemistry package. Subsequently, the ADT is performed using those newly developed equations to validate the positions of the CIs, evaluate the ADT angles and construct smooth, symmetric, and continuous diabatic PESs for both the molecular systems.