Abstract
An approximate solution of the Schrӧdinger equation for a molecular attractive potential was obtained using the parametric Nikiforov–Uvarov method. The energy equation and the corresponding radial wave functions were calculated. The effects of the potential parameters on the energy eigenvalues were examined. The thermal properties under the molecular attractive potential were calculated and the behaviour of the thermal properties with the maximum quantum state (λ) and the temperature parameter (β) respectively, were studied. Using the molecular spectroscopic parameters, the Rydberg–Klein–Rees (RKR) of cesium dimer and lithium dimer were both obtained and compared with the experimental values. The RKR values of both cesium dimer and lithium dimer calculated aligned with the observed values. The deviation and average deviation of the RKR for each molecule were also calculated.
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Introduction
A good understanding of a molecular structure depends on the internuclear and molecular potential models. This creates a larger space of study on the molecular potential functions in the diatomic domain, which geared different authors to carry out a number of researches in this area. The molecular potential functions have spectroscopic parameters such as the dissociation energy \((D_{e} ),\) equilibrium bond separation \((r_{e} )\) and a screening parameter \((\alpha )\) that make them suitable for the description of the diatomic molecules. The molecular screening parameter is calculated using a simple formula1,2,3
where \(\omega_{e}\) is a vibrational frequency, \(c\) is speed of light, \(W\) is Lambert function, \(\mu\) is the reduced mass. With the aid of the spectroscopic parameters, several molecular potential functions were formulated and studied for different applications. For instance, the improved Rosen Morse potential function formulated by Jia et al.4, was used to study the RKR of sodium dimer, nitrogen dimer and cesium dimer respectively in Refs.2,5,6. In Refs.7 and8 respectively, the improved Manning-Rosen potential function also formulated by Jia et al.4 was used to calculate the rotation vibrational transition frequency of hydrogen fluoride (HF). The Tietz-Wei potential function was used to study eigensolutions and thermodynamic properties in Ref.9. In Ref.3, an improved deformed four parameter exponential-type potential model was formulated and studied under the RKR of cesium molecule. The same RKR of cesium molecule was studied under Tietz-Hua oscillator in Ref.10. Desai et al.11, in one of their papers, calculated the RKR of nitrogen molecule and hydrogen molecule under the Morse potential and modified Morse potential. Recently, Horchani et al.12, formulated an improved generalized Pӧschl–Teller oscillator and obtained the RKR of potassium molecule. Jia et al.13, in one of the papers, calculated the thermodynamic properties of lithium dimer under the improved Manning-Rosen potential. Onate and Idiodi14, reported Fisher information and complexity measures of the generalized Morse potential model. The thermodynamic properties of Shifted Deng-Fan potential was also reported by Oyewumi et al.15. The scattering state solutions for Manning-Rosen potential was reported by Qiang et al.16. In Ref.17, Idiodi and Onate obtained Fisher information and variance for Frost Musulin potential. Onate et al.18, also reported some theoretic quantities under Tietz-Hua potential. Edet et al.19, calculated the thermal properties of the Deng–Fan–Eckart potential. The bound state solutions and energy spectra for some molecules under some molecular potentials were also studied and reported by different authors. Motivated by the usefulness and influence of the molecular potentials, this study aims to transform an attractive potential model to a molecular potential model and study the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation with the transform potential. The study also intends to calculate the RKR values of two molecules (cesium dimer and lithium dimer) and thermodynamic properties of the potential. The attractive potential is a four-parameter exponential-type potential formulated in 1993 by Williams and Pouliss20. According to these authors, the four parameters are \(A,\) \(B,\) \(C\) and \(\alpha .\) The attractive potential has received acceptable reports under relativistic and non-relativistic regime by few authors21,22,23. The potential cannot be used to describe the detail features of a molecule since there are no spectroscopic parameters. Here, the attractive potential will be modified into a molecular potential function to fit the description of a given molecule. The molecular attractive potential model in this study is given by
The parameters \(A,\) \(B\) and \(C\) are potential parameters. In the previous reports on the attractive potential, the potential parameters were given as \(A = \left( {\frac{\alpha }{2}} \right)^{2} ,\) \(B = \frac{{\lambda_{0} \alpha^{2} }}{4} - 2\alpha^{2}\) and \(C = \alpha^{2} - \frac{{\lambda_{0} \alpha^{2} }}{4},\) where \(- \infty < \lambda_{0} < + \infty ,\) however, in our computations, these values may not be used. In the present work, these parameters are given as \(A = \frac{{\lambda_{0} }}{2},\) \(B = 2(1 - \lambda_{0} )\) and \(C = A + B + 2.\) This is to enable us have the desired results. The scheme of our work is as follows: The bound state of the radial Schrödinger equation is given in the next section. The thermal properties of the potential are given in section 3. The discussion of results and conclusion respectively are given in sections 4 and 5.
Bound state solutions of the Schrödinger equation with molecular attractive potential
From the three-dimensional Schrödinger equation, the radial Schrödinger equation with a centrifugal term is given as
where \(V(r)\) is the interacting potential, \(E_{n\ell }\) is the non-relativistic energy of the system, \(\hbar\) is the reduced Planck’s constant, \(n\) is the quantum number,\(R_{n\ell } (r)\) is the wave function. The centrifugal term in Eq. (3) can be over-come by employing the following approximation scheme
In this work, the authors decided to use parametric Nikiforov–Uvarov method for the calculation of the energy equation and the wave functions. The parametric Nikiforov–Uvarov method is a popular and accurate method to obtain energy equation and the wave functions. It was derived from the original Nikiforov–Uvarov method25. The method has been widely reported and as such, the detail of the method will not be presented in this work. To use this method, Tezcan and Sever26, formulated a general form of a second-order differential equation of the form
Following the work of these authors, the condition for eigenvalues equation and wave functions respectively, are given by24,26,27,28,29
where \(P_{n}^{(\alpha ,\beta )}\) are Jacobi polynomials. The parametric constants in Eqs. (6) and (7) are mathematically deduced as
The detail of the methodology can be found in Ref.26 and other literatures. When Eq. (2) and Eq. (4) are substituted into Eq. (3), the radial Schrödinger equation given in Eq. (3) becomes
Defining a variable of the form \(y = e^{ - \alpha r} ,\) and substitute it into Eq. (9), then, we have
where
Comparing Eq. (10) with Eqs. (5), (8) turns out to be
Substituting Eq. (12) into Eqs. (6) and (7) respectively, we have the energy equation and its corresponding wave functions for the system as follows
The molecular attractive potential and thermodynamic properties
To calculate the thermodynamic properties for the molecular attractive potential, the energy equation given in Eq. (13) is written in a compact form which is purely vibrational. Thus Eq. (13) is written as
Having written the energy equation in a compact form that is suitable for the calculation of the thermodynamic properties, then, the partition function of the system can be define as
Now, defining \(\rho = \left( {n + \delta } \right)\) and substituting Eqs. (17) into (19), the partition function given above can easily be written in the form
where \(\lambda_{\max } = - \delta + \sqrt {Q_{3} } .\) Using Mathematica 10.0 version, the partition function of Eq. (20) becomes
where
Vibrational mean energy
where
Vibrational specific heat capacity
where
Vibrational entropy
Vibrational free energy
Discussion
The effects of the three potential parameters on the energy eigenvalues are shown in Fig. 1. It is observed that as \(A\) and \(C\) respectively decreases from − 10 to minus infinity, the energy tends to be constant. In the same way, as each of \(A\) and \(C\) increases from 0 to infinity, the energy tends to be constant. In each case, the energy has two turning points. The two turning points lies between − 6.5 and − 4.5 for each of \(A\) and \(C\). The variation of energy with \(B\) goes differently from that of \(A\) and \(C\). The energy of the system goes to negative infinity as \(B\) rises. The energy also has two turning point between \(B = - 11.5\) and \(B = - 9.5.\) The behaviour of the vibrational partition function with the maximum quantum state (λ) and the temperature parameter (β) respectively, are shown in Fig. 2. The vibrational partition function decreases monotonically as both λ and β respectively, increases. When the partition function decreases as β increases, it simply means that the partition function increases only when the temperature of the system rises. In both cases, the partition function tends to converge at various values of β and λ. In Fig. 3, the plots of the vibrational mean energy against λ and β respectively are shown. The vibrational mean energy rises with an increase in λ but decreases with increasing β. The vibrational mean energy for β = 0.001, 0.00104, 0.00107 and 0.00109 are equal for all values of λ. For various values of λ, the vibrational mean energy tends to converge as the temperature of the system rises gradually. The effects of the maximum quantum state and temperature parameter respectively, are shown in Fig. 4. The vibrational specific heat capacity varies directly with β. At β = 0, the vibrational specific heat capacity for λ = 1.5, 2, 2.5 and 3 converged. As β increases, the vibrational specific heat capacity for various λ diverged. The vibrational specific heat capacity rises as λ increases for some values and have a turning point at λ = 4225. Though the specific heat capacity decreases as λ increases above 4225, the decrease is not as sharp as the increase for λ < 4225. Figure 5 showed the variation of entropy with both maximum quantum state and temperature parameter. The vibrational entropy rises with the maximum quantum state λ for the four values of β studied. In the case of β, the vibrational entropy decreases for some values of β and have a turning point. The turning point of the entropy for various λ differs from one another. However, as the temperature parameter increases, the vibrational entropy for various λ tends to converge. Figure 6 presents the variation of free energy with both λ and β respectively. The vibrational free energy varies directly with the maximum quantum state (λ) and increases monotonically as the temperature parameter (β) increases. At higher values of β, the vibrational energy has a turning point.
Since the potential parameters (\(A\), \(B\) and \(C\)) are not spectroscopic parameters, a careful selection of their values is required. To obtain a desired result, in this work, the potential parameters are taken as \(A = \frac{{\lambda_{0} }}{2},\) \(B = 2(1 - \lambda_{0} )\) and \(C = A + B + 2\) in the computations of numerical values. In Table 1, the energy spectrum for three values of the dissociation energy with various quantum number and angular momentum quantum number were presented. As it can be seen from the table, the higher the dissociation energy, the higher the energy of the system. It also shows that the energy of the system varies directly with the quantum number. With a carefully selection of the relationship for the potential parameters, the results obtained for the molecular attractive potential equal the results for Generalized Morse potential. In Table 2, we presented a comparison of the results of the molecular attractive potential and that of the Generalized Morse potential for two different values of the equilibrium bond separation. The results showed a good agreement. In the computations, \(\lambda_{0} = 2.\) In Table 3, the calculated RKR vibrational energies and the experimental data for cesium dimer and lithium dimer are presented using Eq. (12) and the experimental data taken from Refs.25 and26. For cesium dimer, \(D_{e} = 2722.28\;{\text{cm}}^{ - 1} ,\)\(r_{e} = 5.3474208\;{\dot{\text{A}}},\) and \(\omega_{e} = 28.8918\;{\text{cm}}^{ - 1} .\) For lithium dimer, \(D_{e} = 2722.28\;{\text{cm}}^{ - 1} ,\) \(r_{e} = 4.173\;{\dot{\text{A}}}\) and \(\omega_{e} = 65.130\;{\text{cm}}^{ - 1} .\) The deviation \(\sigma\) for both the cesium dimer and the lithium dimer were calculated. For the cesium dimer, the deviation increases from the lowest vibrational level to the highest vibrational level. The deviation in the lithium dimer increases from the lowest vibrational level to the first three lower vibrational level, then the pattern of deviation changes without following a definite direction. To ascertain the closeness of the calculated values to the experimental values, the average deviation for each molecule was calculated using the formula9
where \(E_{RKR}\) is the experimental values, \(E_{v0}\) is the calculated value and \(N\) is the number of experimental RKR data points. With the formula, the average deviation for the cesium dimer is 0.4415% and that of the lithium dimer is 0.0007%.
Conclusion
The solutions of a one-dimensional Schrödinger equation were obtained under a molecular potential with three different potential parameters. It was noted that for negative values of the potential parameters, the potential parameters have the same effects on the energy eigenvalues but for positive values of the potential parameters, the effect of one differs from the effects of the other two parameters. The effect of λ and β on the thermal properties are the same except that of the mean energy. The RKR of both cesium dimer and lithium dimer calculated aligned with the observed values. However, the average deviation of lithium dimer from the observed value is far smaller than the average deviation of cesium dimer from the observed value.
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Onate, C.A., Akanbi, T.A. & Okon, I.B. Ro-vibrational energies of cesium dimer and lithium dimer with molecular attractive potential. Sci Rep 11, 6198 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85761-x
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