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Axel Schild
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For localized and oriented vibrationally excited molecules, the one-body probability density of the nuclei (one-nucleus density) is studied. Like the familiar and widely used one-electron density that represents the probability of finding an electron at a given location in space, the one-nucleus density represents the probability of finding a nucleus at a given position in space independent of the location of the other nuclei. In contrast to the full many-dimensional nuclear probability density, the one-nucleus density contains less information and may thus be better accessible by experiment, especially for large molecules. It also provides a quantum-mechanical view of molecular vibrations that can easily be visualized. We study how the nodal structure of the wavefunctions of vibrationally excited states translates to the one-nucleus density. It is found that nodes are not necessarily visible: Already for relatively small molecules, only certain vibrational excitations change the one-nucleus density qualitatively compared to the ground state. It turns out that there are some simple rules for predicting the shape of the one-nucleus density from the normal mode coordinates, and thus for predicting if a vibrational excitation is visible in a corresponding experiment.
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