A new global potential energy surface of X2A′ state of Li2H system and quantum dynamics calculation of the H + Li2 → Li + LiH reaction

Abstract A new potential energy surface (PES) of the ground state (X2A′) of Li2H was built using 18,403 ab initio points. The MRCI-F12 method with AVQZ basis set were used in the ab initio calculation. Furthermore, the widely used permutation invariant polynomial neural network method was adopted in the fitting process. The features of new PES were compared with previous theoretical and experimental studies. The results indicated that the spectroscopic parameters of PES are in good agreement with experimental data. In addition, the dynamics calculations of the H + Li2 → Li + LiH reaction were carried out using time-dependent wave packet method based on the new PES. The dynamics properties such as reaction probability, integral cross section and thermal rate constant were reported and compared with previous theoretical studies.