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In molecular spectroscopy, a Jablonski diagram is a diagram that illustrates the electronic states and often the vibrational levels of a molecule, and also the transitions between them. The states are arranged vertically by energy and grouped horizontally by spin multiplicity . [ 1 ]
The ground state of a quantum-mechanical system is its stationary state of lowest energy; the energy of the ground state is known as the zero-point energy of the system. An excited state is any state with energy greater than the ground state. In quantum field theory, the ground state is usually called the vacuum state or the vacuum. If more ...
The ground state is labelled X, excited states of the same multiplicity (i.e., having the same spin quantum number) are labelled in ascending order of energy with capital letters A, B, C...; excited states having different multiplicity than the ground state are labelled with lower-case letters a, b, c...
From the high-spin (left) side of the d 7 Tanabe–Sugano diagram, the ground state is 4 T 1 (F), and the spin multiplicity is a quartet. The diagram shows that there are three quartet excited states: 4 T 2, 4 A 2, and 4 T 1 (P). From the diagram one can predict that there are three spin-allowed transitions.
If it is at a higher energy level, it is said to be excited, or any electrons that have higher energy than the ground state are excited. An energy level is regarded as degenerate if there is more than one measurable quantum mechanical state associated with it.
In examining how much vibrational energy a molecule could acquire when it is excited to a higher electronic level, and whether this vibrational energy could be enough to immediately break apart the molecule, he drew three diagrams representing the possible changes in binding energy between the lowest electronic state and higher electronic states.
For sulfur (S) the lowest energy term is again with spin–orbit levels =,,, but now there are four of six possible electrons in the shell so the ground state is . If the shell is half-filled then L = 0 {\displaystyle L=0\,} , and hence there is only one value of J {\displaystyle J\,} (equal to S {\displaystyle S\,} ), which is the lowest ...
The saddle point represents the highest energy point lying on the reaction coordinate connecting the reactant and product; this is known as the transition state. A reaction coordinate diagram may also have one or more transient intermediates which are shown by high energy wells connected via a transition state peak.