Sanli Aydin, Beser Bediha, Edwardson John R, Magnier Sylvie, Ahmed Ergin H, Marjatta Lyyra A
Physics Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA.
Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molecules, UMR-CNRS 8523, Universite Lille 1-Sciences et Technologies, F-559655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
J Chem Phys. 2015 Sep 14;143(10):104304. doi: 10.1063/1.4929925.
We report here ab initio calculated electronic transition dipole moments for the sodium dimer ion pair states of (1)Σg (+) symmetry. They vary strongly as a function of internuclear distance because of the effect of the Na(+) + Na(-) ion pair potential, which also causes the formation of additional wells and shoulders in the molecular potential energy curves. We also present a computational study of the transition dipole moment matrix elements and lifetimes for these ion-pair states.