Hyperpolarizability vibrational

The properties available include electrostatic charges, multipoles, polarizabilities, hyperpolarizabilities, and several population analysis schemes. Frequency correction factors can be applied automatically to computed vibrational frequencies. IR intensities may be computed along with frequency calculations. 

Some vibrations which are both Raman and infrared inactive may be allowed in the hyper Raman effect. Indeed, the occasional appearance of such vibrations in Raman spectra in a condensed phase has sometimes been attributed to an effect involving the hyperpolarizability. 

The CCSD model gives for static and frequency-dependent hyperpolarizabilities usually results close to the experimental values, provided that the effects of vibrational averaging and the pure vibrational contributions have been accounted for. Zero point vibrational corrections for the static and the electric field induced second harmonic generation (ESHG) hyperpolarizability of methane have recently been calculated by Bishop and Sauer using SCF and MCSCF wavefunctions [51]. 

Table 4 Comparison of various ab initio results and experimental estimates for the dispersion coefficients of the electronic hyperpolarizabilities 7jj and 7 of methane. (All results in atomic units. Results for the dispersion coefficients refer to single point calculations at the equilibrium geometry. Where available, dispersion coefficients for the vibrational average are given in parentheses.)...

The pointwise given MCSCF results for zero point vibrational corrections for the ESHG hyperpolarizability were added to the CCSD results obtained from the dispersion coefficients and than fitted to a fourth-order polynomial in... 

The hyperpolarizability tensor is obtained in a way similar to the case of SHG. However, the selection rules for an SFG resonance at the IR frequency implies that the vibrational mode is both IR and Raman active, as the SF hyperpolarizability tensor elements involve both an IR absorption and a Raman-anti-Stokes cross-section. Conversely, the DFG hyperpolarizability tensor elements involve an IR absorption and a Raman-Stokes cross-section. The hyperpolarizability tensor elements can be written in a rather compact form involving several vibrational excitations as [117] ... 

Further work on long polyenes, including vibrational distortion, frequency dispersion effects and electron correlation, would be important for evaluating more accurate asymptotic longitudinal polarizabilities and hyperpolarizabilities. 

Asymptotic formulae. For a discussion of induced dipoles in highly polarizable species, it is often sufficient to consider the so-called classical multipole induction approximation in its simplest form (i.e., neglecting field gradients and hyperpolarizabilities). In such a case, one needs to know only the vibrational matrix elements of the multipole moments,... 

Hyperpolarizabilities of molecules are an active field of study, because they determine a variety of important nonlinear optical effects. However, the deduction of hyperpolarizabilities from these nonlinear optical experiments is a very complicated business. The experiments are carried out at finite frequencies, so some extrapolation is required to obtain an estimate of the static (zero frequency) value. Also, there is a contribution to the hyperpolarizability from molecular vibrations, so even after extrapolation to zero frequency the experimental result may not correspond to what is desired. It is therefore very useful to study atoms, both theoretically and experimentally, since this vibrational contribution is necessarily absent. Calculations... 

Vibrational first hyperpolarizability of methane and its fluorinated analogs... 

In DFWM vibrational contribution can add to the electronic part of the second-order hyperpolarizability measured by THG. For the measurements of the short PTAs far from any resonance the same values by both techniques were obtained which would indicate that this vibrational contribution is small relative to the electronic one. 

The calculated first hyperpolarizabilities (see Table 2-4) are surprisingly close to the experimental data, which is probably fortuitous because they were calculated without taking into account vibrational effect. These studies demonstrated also that the double-zeta basis set augmented by field-induced polarization functions, although sufficient for calculations of dipole and quadrupole moments of the studied molecules at the Kohn-Sham LDA level, is not sufficient in the case of hyperpolarizabilities. 

Periodic oscillations in this dipole can act as a source term in the generation of new optical frequencies. Here a is the linear polarizability discussed in Exps. 29 and 35 on dipole moments and Raman spectra, while fi and x are the second- and third-order dielectric susceptibilities, respectively. The quantity fi is also called the hyperpolarizability and is the material property responsible for second-harmonic generation. Note that, since E cos cot, the S term can be expressed as -j(l + cos 2 wt). The next higher nonlinear term x is especially important in generating sum and difference frequencies when more than one laser frequency is incident on the sample. In the case of coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS), X gives useful information about vibrational and rotational transitions in molecules. 

Since the non-linear susceptibility is generally complex, each resonant term in the summation is associated with a relative phase, y , which describes the interference between overlapping vibrational modes. The resonant macroscopic susceptibility associated with a particular vibrational mode v, Xr, is related to the microscopic susceptibility also called the molecular hyperpolarizability, fiy, in the following way... 

The vibrationally resonant hyperpolarizability of a molecule can be described with the following expression obtained utilizing perturbation theory [17] (assuming that the only interactions between the electric fields and the media are dipolar interactions). 

Calculations of the vibrational contributions to the static polarizability and hyperpolarizability have also been attempted. As far as the EFISH experiment is concerned, which depends on the square of an optical frequency field, it is assumed that there will be no direct contribution to (—2static contribution is comparable with the static electronic contribution to /1(0 0,0). An indirect vibrational effect through the linear polarizability of the solvent molecules is more important. Calculations of the vibrational effects in pNA cannot be carried out reliably even for the static case since the second term in the perturbation theory is much larger then the first and there is no evidence of convergence. 

Apart from purely electronic effects, an asymmetric nuclear relaxation in the electric field can also contribute to the first hyperpolarizability in processes that are partly induced by a static field, such as the Pockels effect [55, 56], and much attention is currently devoted to the study of the vibrational hyperpolarizability, can be deduced from experimental data in two different ways [57, 58], and a review of the theoretical calculations of p, is given in Refs. [59] and [60]. The numerical value of the static P is often similar to that of static electronic hyperpolarizabilities, and this was rationalized with a two-state valence-bond charge transfer model. Recent ab-initio computational tests have shown, however, that this model is not always adequate and that a direct correlation between static electronic and vibrational hyperpolarizabilities does not exist [61]. 

The vibrational excursions of a molecule may cause it to have sharply changing electrical properties from state to state. This, of course, is essential for mechanisms of absorption and emission of radiation. How sharp these changes may be is illustrated for HF in Figure 3. The curves show the axial elements of a. A, and P in the vicinity of the equilibrium bond length as a function of the H-F distance. The types of changes that may be found in a polyatomic molecule are illustrated by Figures 4 and 5. They show contours of the dipole polarizability and hyperpolarizability elements over the two stretching coordinates of HCN. Both and P yy have zero contours... 

To understand the complete role of vibration in determining electrical properties, it is useful to consider a diatomic molecule in the harmonic oscillator approximation, where the stretching potential is taken to be quadratic in the displacement coordinate. The doubly harmonic model takes the various electrical properties to be linear functions of the coordinate. This turns out to be most reasonable in the vicinity of an equilibrium structure, but it breaks down at long separations. Letting x be a coordinate giving the displacement from equilibrium of a one-dimensional harmonic oscillator, the dipole moment, dipole polarizability, and dipole hyperpolarizability, within the doubly harmonic (dh) model, may be written in the following way ... 

The difference equation or numerical integration method for vibrational wavefunctions usually referred to as the Numerov-Cooley method [111] has been extended by Dykstra and Malik [116] to an open-ended method for the analytical differentiation of the vibrational Schrodinger equation of a diatomic. This is particularly important for high-order derivatives (i.e., hyperpolarizabilities) where numerical difficulties may limit the use of finite-field treatments. As in Numerov-Cooley, this is a procedure that invokes the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. The accuracy of the results are limited only by the quality of the electronic wavefunction s description of the stretching potential and of the electrical property functions and by the adequacy of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. 

SHG spectroscopy SFG spectroscopy Electronic transitions. Vibrational transitions identification of interfacial molecules. Quantitative analysis complicated knowledge of hyperpolarizabilities of each vibrational mode required. 

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