Vibrational energy relaxation of diatomic molecules in rare gas crystals
- 15 January 1997
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 106 (3), 1034-1040
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.473187
Abstract
We develop a theory, based on Fermi’s golden rule, for state-to-state vibrational multiphonon relaxation rates for a diatomic molecule in a rare gas crystal. The interaction between the diatomic and each of the host atoms is modeled with a Lennard–Jones potential. As such, the coupling between the anharmonic vibration of the diatomic and the acoustic phonons of the crystal is nonlinear (and nonexponential) in the atomic displacements from equilibrium. We compare our theory for the relaxation rates with experimental results from a sequence of vibrational transitions of O in Ar crystal.
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