title: Time scales and pathways of vibrational energy relaxation in liquid CHBr3 and CDBr3.
abstract: Molecular dynamics simulations are used in conjunction with Landau-Teller, fluctuating Landau-Teller, and time-dependent perturbation theories to investigate energy flow out of various vibrational states of liquid CHBr3 and CDBr3. The CH stretch overtone is found to relax with a time scale of about 1 ps compared to the 50 ps rate for the fundamental. The relaxation pathways and rates for the CD stretch decay in CDBr3 are computed in order to understand the changes arising from deuteration. While the computed relaxation rate agrees well with experiments, the pathway is found to be more complex than anticipated. In addition to the above channels for CH(D) stretch relaxation that involve only the hindered translations and rotations of the solvent, routes involving off-resonant and resonant excitations of solvent vibrational modes are also examined. Finally, the decay of energy from low frequency states to near-lying solute states and solvent vibrations are studied.
authors.affiliation: Theoretical Chemistry Institute, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
authors.forename: Sai G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Ramesh
authors.forename: Edwin L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Sibert