Abstract

Highly cxcited vibrational states of molecules have been studied with great interest in recent years. Their energy level structures and dynamical behavior are directly concerned with the mechanisms of multiphoton dissociation, chemical reaction, relaxation in the lasing medium, and so on. Localization of vibration energy into a particular bond may take place before the processes proceed. The normal-mode representation in adiabatic harmonic potential will explain the energy level structures and dynamical behavior in low-lying vibrational states. It is not certain, however, whether this representation can be used to describe very high vibrational states.

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