Highly accurate HF dimer ab initio potential energy surface. 2022

Roman I Ovsyannikov, and Vladimir Yu Makhnev, and Nikolai F Zobov, and Jacek Koput, and Jonathan Tennyson, and Oleg L Polyansky
Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 46 Ulyanov Street, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia.

A highly accurate, (HF)2 potential energy surface (PES) is constructed based on ab initio calculations performed at the coupled-cluster single double triple level of theory with an aug-cc-pVQZ-F12 basis set at about 152 000 points. A higher correlation correction is computed at coupled-cluster single double triple quadruple level for 2000 points and is considered alongside other more minor corrections due to relativity, core-valence correlation, and Born-Oppenheimer failure. The analytical surface constructed uses 500 constants to reproduce the ab initio points with a standard deviation of 0.3 cm-1. Vibration-rotation-inversion energy levels of the HF dimer are computed for this PES by variational solution of the nuclear-motion Schrödinger equation using the program WAVR4. Calculations over an extended range of rotationally excited states show very good agreement with the experimental data. In particular, the known empirical rotational constants B for the ground vibrational states are predicted to better than about 2 MHz. B constants for excited vibrational states are reproduced several times more accurately than by previous calculations. This level of accuracy is shown to extend to higher excited inter-molecular vibrational states v and higher excited rotational quantum numbers (J, Ka).

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