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Vibrating Molecule

These are the settings for a molecule as a whole, i.e. those common to all states (but perhaps different for different isotopologues).

Settings

nNuclei Number of atoms. Only required if the l matrix is not being used to calculate Franck-Condon factors, otherwise can be left at zero.
Jmin Not used
Jmax For linear point groups, this is taken as the maximum vibrational angular momentum to include when simulating spectra.
Colour Colour - set to "None" to take value from elsewhere.
JAdjustSym Currently ignored for this molecule type.
BlockMatrix Set to force check of Hamiltonian matrix for factorization into blocks before diagonalization. If blocks are found, these are diagonalized separately, ensuring states that have no connecting matrix elements are not accidentally mixed if the eigenvalues happen to be very close. In principle, if full use is made of symmetry and states are separated into separate manifolds as appropriate, this should not be necessary but can easily happen if selected terms in the Hamiltonian are zero or interactions between states are omitted.
PointGroup Point group of molecule. Currently C1, Ci, C2, Cs, D2, C2v, C2h, D2h, Cinfinityv and Dinfinityh are implemented.
nModes Number of vibrational modes to include in the calculation.
ShowAllQnos
Set false to hide vibrational quantum numbers with vmin = vmax = 0 in all states. This is essential for large molecules with many modes.

Parameters

Abundance Abundance of this isotope; default is 1