Beyond Born-Oppenheimer Constructed Diabatic Potential Energy Surfaces for HeH 2 .
Koushik NaskarSatyam RaviSatrajit AdhikariMichael BaerNarayanasami SathyamurthyPublished in: The journal of physical chemistry. A (2023)
First-principles based beyond Born-Oppenheimer theory has been employed to construct multistate global Potential-Energy Surfaces (PESs) for the HeH 2 + system by explicitly incorporating the Nonadiabatic Coupling Terms (NACTs). Adiabatic PESs and NACTs for the lowest four electronic states (1 2 A', 2 2 A', 3 2 A' and 4 2 A') are evaluated as functions of hyperangles for a grid of fixed values of the hyperradius in hyperspherical coordinates. Conical intersection between different states are validated by integrating the NACTs along appropriately chosen contours. Subsequently, adiabatic-to-diabatic (ADT) transformation angles are determined by solving the ADT equations to construct the diabatic potential matrix for the HeH 2 + system which are smooth, single-valued, continuous, and symmetric and are suitable for performing accurate scattering calculations for the titled system.