Meaning Avoided crossing
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Avoided crossing


An energy gap between the ground and excited states of a molecule where two diabatic surfaces couple to one another to give rise to ground and excited state adiabatic surfaces. The diabatic surfaces effectively avoid one another, hence the term 'avoided crossing'. The magnitude of the energy gap between the two surfaces is twice the magni [..]
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