Vibrational Spectra of Polyatomic Molecules through an Algebraic Approach

1987

The study of molecular oscillators may be performed with algebraic methods based upon dynamical chains and their realization in terms of boson operators. From the dynamical algebra U(p+1) for p equivalent oscillators, associated with stretching modes, the local, pseudo-normal and normal limits are obtained through appropriate subgroup chains and various realizations of the U(p+1) generators. Similar technics can be applied to bending modes. Application to XY4 molecules will be presented.