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American Institute of Physics, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 4(140), p. 041106

DOI: 10.1063/1.4862684

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Communication: State mixing by spin-orbit coupling in the anionic chloroiodine dissociations

Journal article published in 2013 by L. Xia, X.-D. Wang, C.-J. Xuan, X.-J. Zeng, H.-K. Li, S. X. Tian, Y. Pan, K.-C. Lau ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Three spin-orbit states, 12Π1/2, 22Π3/2, and 22Π1/2, of chloroiodine anion (ICl-) formed by low-energy electron attachment in the Franck-Condon region are associated with the dissociative limits of I- (1S0) and Cl (2P3/2) or Cl* (2P1/2) fragments. Within the adiabatic scheme, the presumptive Π-symmetry of the fragment angular distributions is dramatically changed to be the Π-Σ mixing symmetry, due to the significant spin-orbit interaction effect on the electronic state couplings of ICl-. The present experimental approach also enables us to separate the contributions of different electronic states from the mixed states, providing a crucial method for quantitatively evaluating the configuration-interaction wavefunctions.