https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2009-00311-6
On shape variation of confined triatomics of XY2-type
ETH Zurich, P.O. Box CAB 24, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Corresponding author: mueller-herold@env.ethz.ch
Received:
22
September
2009
Revised:
30
October
2009
Published online:
15
December
2009
Harmonic confinement of initially isolated symmetric triatomic molecules can induce a transition from a bent, directed bond-type structure to helium-like angular correlation of the two equal particles. In an exactly solvable modification of the Hooke-Calogero model it is demonstrated that there is a well-defined transition between the two cases if the confinement strength is increased. Furthermore confinement is shown to reduce the system's effective diameter, which at the transition point has shrunk by 26% in comparison to the isolated system.
PACS: 31.70.Dk – Environmental and solvent effects / 33.15.Dj – Interatomic distances and angles / 03.65.Ge – Solutions of wave equations: bound states / 68.65.Hb – Quantum dots (patterned in quantum wells)
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2009
