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Published October 1, 1979 | Published
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Vibronic dephasing of anharmonic molecules. II. Impurity molecules isolated in low-temperature matrices

Abstract

The quantum‐mechanical theory of vibronic dephasing presented in the first paper of this series is applied to the case of a diatomic impurity dissolved in a solid rare‐gas host. An explicit expression for the pure dephasing rate T_2′^(−1) is derived in terms of microscopic properties of the impurity and host, and the effects of variations in the parameters characterizing these properties are investigated. The expression for T_2′^(−1) is applied specifically to the system Cl_2/Ar in order to relate the results to those of previous classical‐trajectory calculations and of experimental measurements. The significance of anharmonicity in the intramolecular potential curve (of the impurity) is demonstrated.

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© 1979 American Institute of Physics. Received 21 December 1978; accepted 28 June 1979. We thank the National Science Foundation for generous support of this work. We are also grateful to A. Baba for providing us with enough stimulation.

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