Intermolecular potential for highly excited molecules

The general expressions for intermolecular potential are obtained on the base of the symmetrical approach. The convergence of intermolecular potential representations to be used for practical relaxation parameter calculations is investigated. It is found the series of intermolecular potential over inverse orders of intermolecular distance are divergent. In this work the technique for the summing of divergent series is supposed. The vibrational dependence of intermolecular potential is analyzed.© (2004) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.