Revised values for the nuclear quadrupole moments of S33 and S35

Stella Stopkowicz and Jürgen Gauss
Phys. Rev. A 90, 022507 – Published 12 August 2014

Abstract

High-level quantum-chemical calculations are reported for the sulfur electric-field gradients of the CS and SiS molecules. Highly accurate values are obtained in these calculations by using coupled-cluster methods for the treatment of electron correlation together with large atomic-orbital basis sets and by taking into account relativistic effects. The computational results for the sulfur electric-field gradient are used to determine revised values for the S33 and S35 quadrupole moments, thereby taking advantage of available accurate values for the sulfur quadrupole couplings of CS and SiS from the analysis of rotational spectra. The derived values of 69.4(4) and 48.3(3) mb for S33 and S35, respectively, are slightly larger in absolute values than the currently accepted values of 67.8(13) and 47.1(9) mb and, most importantly, have significantly reduced uncertainties.

  • Received 1 July 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.90.022507

©2014 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Stella Stopkowicz1,* and Jürgen Gauss2,†

  • 1Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, N-0315 Oslo, Norway
  • 2Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Mainz, D-55099 Mainz, Germany

  • *stella.stopkowicz@kjemi.uio.no
  • gauss@uni-mainz.de

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Vol. 90, Iss. 2 — August 2014

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