New rovibrational kinetic energy operators using polyspherical coordinates for polyatomic molecules
Author(s) -
David W. Schwenke
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
the journal of chemical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.071
H-Index - 357
eISSN - 1089-7690
pISSN - 0021-9606
DOI - 10.1063/1.1574013
Subject(s) - rotational–vibrational spectroscopy , polyatomic ion , kinetic energy , molecule , potential energy , internal energy , energy (signal processing) , rotational energy , physics , classical mechanics , algebra over a field , computer science , mathematics , pure mathematics , quantum mechanics
We illustrate how one can easily derive kinetic energy operators for polyatomic molecules using polyspherical coordinates with very general choices for z-axis embeddings and angles used to specify relative orientations of internal vectors. Computer algebra is not required.
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