Excited molecular terms of the alkali-rare gas atom pairs

Abstract

Numerous excited molecular terms for the various alkali-rare gas atom pairs have been determined. The semiempirical potential model of Baylis has been used with some modifications in the calculation of the molecular terms; in particular, a large number of atomic states are included in our calculation, which ensure the stability of the calculated molecular terms. Our results show that coupling among molecular terms is very important and gives rise to structure in the excited potential energy curves. Comparisons between our results and other theoretical and experimental data are made.