Theoretical calculation of the electronic states with spin‐orbit effects of the molecule NaRb

Abstract

Abstract The potential energy curves of the molecule NaRb have been calculated for the 60 low‐lying electronic states in the Ω ‐representation. Using an ab‐initio method the calculation is based on nonempirical pseudo‐potential in the interval 3.0 a o ≤ R ≤ 44.0 a o of the internuclear distance. The spin‐orbit effects have been taken into account through a semiempirical spin‐orbit pseudo‐potential added to the electrostatic Hamiltonian with Gaussian basis sets for both atoms. The spectroscopic constants have been calculated for 42 states and the components of the spin‐orbit splitting have been identified for the states (1, 2, 5) 3 Π and (1, 2) 3 Δ. The comparison of the present results with those available in literature shows a good agreement, whereas the other results, to the best of our knowledge, are given here for the first time. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2009