A GENERAL PROGRAM FOR THE CALCULATION OF INTERNAL ROTATION SPLITTINGS IN MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY. II. THE N-TOP PROBLEM,

Abstract

The internal axis method is extended to treat the effects of internal rotation in the microwave spectra of molecules with several internal symmetric tops. As a first approximation the method ignores all top-top coupling and assumes that the potential for each top is purely sinusoidal. An arbitrary number of tops is first considered and then specialization is made to the most important case, the ground state of a molecule with two equivalent tops, which turns out to be extraordinarily simple. Finally, the refinement of the method which takes the top-top coupling into account is considered. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0645780

Entities

People

  • R. C. Woods

Organizations

  • Harvard University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Couplings
  • Ground State
  • Microwave Spectroscopy
  • Microwaves
  • Molecules
  • Radio Frequency Spectroscopy
  • Rotation
  • Specialization
  • Spectra
  • Spectroscopy
  • Splitting

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Quantum spin resonance or Electron Paramagnetic Resonance spectroscopy.