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Speaker: Prof. Satrajit Adhikari
Senior Professor of Theoretical Chemistry
School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for
the Cultivation of Science,Kolkata-700032,
West Bengal, India
Title: "Role of Electron-Nuclear Coupling: Spectroscopy, Scattering and Phase Transition".
Day and Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Time: 4.00 PM.
Venue: Room no. 350, Chemistry Department Second floor, Annex
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Hosted by Prof. Rajarshi Chakrabarti
Abstract The first principle based theory [1-2] is presented for the construction of highly “accurate” potentially
coupled Hamiltonian to explore photoelectron (PE) spectra of NO3
-
and 1,3,5-C6H6F3 [3-4], reactive
scattering processes of D+ + H2, He + H2
+
and F + H2 [5-10], and phase transition of perovskites, LaMnO3
and BaTiO3 [11-12]. Jahn-Teller (JT), Pseudo Jahn-Teller (PJT) and Renner-Teller (RT) types of
interactions are investigated. [3-5,7,9,11-12] Theoretically calculated photoelectron spectra show peak by
peak correspondence with the experimental and other theoretical findings. [3-4, 11-12] Cross-sections
and/or rate constants of D+ + H2 [6], He + H2
+
[8] and F + H2 [10] processes obtained from scattering
dynamics over global diabatic surfaces of H3
+
[5], He + H2
+
[7] and F + H2 [9] systems, respectively, exhibit
good accord with the experimentally measured ones. The surface phonon modes and the bosonic
distribution of their states for H2/D2-Cu(111) dissociative chemisorption process exhibits significant
quantum effect [13] as observed in experiments [14]. Optical spectra of LaMnO3 and ferroelectric properties
of BaTiO3 show anomalous as well as sharp temperature dependence due to JT/PJT effect both in ground
and excited states. Such observations have been investigated theoretically using model [15] as well as ab
initio adiabatic as well as diabatic potential energy surfaces (PESs) of MnO6
9-
[11] and TiO6
8-
[12] to
interpret the experimental spectra due to the excitations of the quantum rotors.