Modified Rosen-Morse potential-energy model for diatomic molecules

Abstract

By employing the dissociation energy and the equilibrium bond length for a diatomic molecule as explicit parameters, we generate an improved expression for the generalized Woods-Saxon potential. It is exactly shown that the generalized Woods-Saxon potential and the well-known Rosen-Morse potential are the same empirical potential-energy function for diatomic molecules. Based on the measure of inner-shell radii of two atoms, we propose a modified Rosen-Morse potential-energy model. Evaluation of the average deviations from the experimental data is carried out on six molecules. The modified Rosen-Morse potential is found to be more accurate than the Morse and Rosen-Morse potentials in fitting experimental data for the six molecules examined.