H2+ in a Lattice of Cavities: Ammonia-Like Splitting of the Lowest Levelстатья
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Аннотация:It is shown that reconstruction of the lowlying energy levels of the ion under conditions of
confinement in a given spatial volume is substantially more significant as compared to the confinement by
simple potential barrier. Depending on the cavity parameters, the groundstate binding energy of could
be significantly greater than that of the free ion, while the behavior of the lowest molecular term of the
ion turns out to be quite different when considered as a function of the internuclear distance. In particular,
two minima might occur in , while the relationship between them could be sufficiently different depend
ing on the cavity parameters, which is shown on the phase diagram that was obtained in the work. We studied
the case of a “mexican hat” structure of the effective ion potential in detail. As a result, the lowest electronic
level of ion splits into the ground state level and the first excited one, with difference between them being as
small as ~10–4 eV. As in the NH3 molecule, in the last case the lowest level gives rise to an effective twolevel
system that is separated from the vibrational and rotational modes by a wide energy gap. More concretely, cal
culation using the Neumann conditions that actually reproduce the confinement on a lattice of similar cavi
ties shows that the splitting of ~10–4 eV occurs for the linear sizes of the confinement area of the order of some
aB and a shell potential magnitude of ~10 eV.