Kj. Oh et al., MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS SIMULATION STUDY OF DENSITY EFFECTS ON VIBRATIONALDEPHASING IN DIATOMIC MOLECULAR LIQUID N2, Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society, 15(2), 1994, pp. 118-122
Molecular dynamics simulation was carried out to study density effects
on vibrational dephasing. Because of difficulty due to large time sca
le difference between vibrational motion and vibrational relaxation, w
e adopt adiabatic approximation in which the vibrational motion is ass
umed to be much faster than translational and rotational motion. As a
result, we are able to study vibrational dephasing by simulating motio
n of rigid molecules. It is shown that the dephasing time is decreased
as density increases and the contribution to this result is mainly du
e to the mean-squared frequency fluctuation.