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Reshetnyak I, Lorin A, Pasquarello A. Many-body screening effects in liquid water. Nat Commun 2023; 14:2705. [PMID: 37169764 PMCID: PMC10175292 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38420-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2020] [Accepted: 04/27/2023] [Indexed: 05/13/2023] Open
Abstract
The screening arising from many-body excitations is a crucial quantity for describing absorption and inelastic X-ray scattering (IXS) of materials. Similarly, the electron screening plays a critical role in state-of-the-art approaches for determining the fundamental band gap. However, ab initio studies of the screening in liquid water have remained limited. Here, we use a combined analysis based on the Bethe-Salpeter equation and time-dependent density functional theory. We first show that absorption spectra at near-edge energies are insufficient to assess the accuracy by which the screening is described. Next, when the energy range under scrutiny is extended, we instead find that the IXS spectra are highly sensitive and allow for the selection of the optimal theoretical scheme. This leads to good agreement with experiment over a large range of transferred energies and momenta, and enables establishing the elusive fundamental band gap of liquid water at 9.3 eV.
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Affiliation(s)
- Igor Reshetnyak
- Chaire de Simulation à l'Echelle Atomique (CSEA), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Chaire de Simulation à l'Echelle Atomique (CSEA), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Chaire de Simulation à l'Echelle Atomique (CSEA), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Chen Z, Bononi FC, Sievers CA, Kong WY, Donadio D. UV-Visible Absorption Spectra of Solvated Molecules by Quantum Chemical Machine Learning. J Chem Theory Comput 2022; 18:4891-4902. [PMID: 35913220 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.1c01181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
Predicting UV-visible absorption spectra is essential to understand photochemical processes and design energy materials. Quantum chemical methods can deliver accurate calculations of UV-visible absorption spectra, but they are computationally expensive, especially for large systems or when one computes line shapes from thermal averages. Here, we present an approach to predict UV-visible absorption spectra of solvated aromatic molecules by quantum chemistry (QC) and machine learning (ML). We show that a ML model, trained on the high-level QC calculation of the excitation energy of a set of aromatic molecules, can accurately predict the line shape of the lowest-energy UV-visible absorption band of several related molecules with less than 0.1 eV deviation with respect to reference experimental spectra. Applying linear decomposition analysis on the excitation energies, we unveil that our ML models probe vertical excitations of these aromatic molecules primarily by learning the atomic environment of their phenyl rings, which align with the physical origin of the π →π* electronic transition. Our study provides an effective workflow that combines ML with quantum chemical methods to accelerate the calculations of UV-visible absorption spectra for various molecular systems.
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- Zekun Chen
- Department of Chemistry, University of California Davis 95616, California, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California Davis 95616, California, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California Davis 95616, California, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California Davis 95616, California, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California Davis 95616, California, United States
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De Santis M, Vallet V, Gomes ASP. Environment Effects on X-Ray Absorption Spectra With Quantum Embedded Real-Time Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory Approaches. Front Chem 2022; 10:823246. [PMID: 35295974 PMCID: PMC8919347 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2022.823246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2021] [Accepted: 02/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
In this work we implement the real-time time-dependent block-orthogonalized Manby-Miller embedding (rt-BOMME) approach alongside our previously developed real-time frozen density embedding time-dependent density functional theory (rt-TDDFT-in-DFT FDE) code, and investigate these methods’ performance in reproducing X-ray absorption spectra (XAS) obtained with standard rt-TDDFT simulations, for model systems comprised of solvated fluoride and chloride ions ([X@(H2O)8−, X = F, Cl). We observe that for ground-state quantities such as core orbital energies, the BOMME approach shows significantly better agreement with supermolecular results than FDE for the strongly interacting fluoride system, while for chloride the two embedding approaches show more similar results. For the excited states, we see that while FDE (constrained not to have the environment densities relaxed in the ground state) is in good agreement with the reference calculations for the region around the K and L1 edges, and is capable of reproducing the splitting of the 1s1 (n + 1)p1 final states (n + 1 being the lowest virtual p orbital of the halides), it by and large fails to properly reproduce the 1s1 (n + 2)p1 states and misses the electronic states arising from excitation to orbitals with important contributions from the solvent. The BOMME results, on the other hand, provide a faithful qualitative representation of the spectra in all energy regions considered, though its intrinsic approximation of employing a lower-accuracy exchange-correlation functional for the environment induces non-negligible shifts in peak positions for the excitations from the halide to the environment. Our results thus confirm that QM/QM embedding approaches are viable alternatives to standard real-time simulations of X-ray absorption spectra of species in complex or confined environments.
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Tölle J, Neugebauer J. The Seamless Connection of Local and Collective Excited States in Subsystem Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:1003-1018. [PMID: 35061387 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c04023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The theoretical understanding of photoinduced processes in multichromophoric systems requires, as an essential ingredient, the possibility of accurately describing their electronically excited states. However, the size of these systems often prohibits the usage of conventional electronic-structure methods, so that often multiscale approaches based on phenomenologically motivated models are employed. In contrast, subsystem time-dependent density functional theory (sTDDFT) allows for a subsystem-based ab initio description of multichromophoric systems and therefore allows for, in principle, an exact description of photoinduced processes. This Perspective aims to outline the theoretical foundations and commonly used practical realizations as well as to illustrate benefits of recent developments and open issues in the field of sTDDFT. Prospective, potential future applications and possible methodological developments are discussed.
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- Johannes Tölle
- Theoretische Organische Chemie, Organisch-Chemisches Institut and Center for Multiscale Theory and Computation, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 40, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Theoretische Organische Chemie, Organisch-Chemisches Institut and Center for Multiscale Theory and Computation, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 40, 48149 Münster, Germany
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De Santis M, Belpassi L, Jacob CR, Severo Pereira Gomes A, Tarantelli F, Visscher L, Storchi L. Environmental Effects with Frozen-Density Embedding in Real-Time Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory Using Localized Basis Functions. J Chem Theory Comput 2020; 16:5695-5711. [PMID: 32786918 PMCID: PMC8009524 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Frozen-density embedding (FDE) represents a versatile embedding scheme to describe the environmental effect on electron dynamics in molecular systems. The extension of the general theory of FDE to the real-time time-dependent Kohn-Sham method has previously been presented and implemented in plane waves and periodic boundary conditions [Pavanello, M.; J. Chem. Phys. 2015, 142, 154116]. In the current paper, we extend our recent formulation of the real-time time-dependent Kohn-Sham method based on localized basis set functions and developed within the Psi4NumPy framework to the FDE scheme. The latter has been implemented in its "uncoupled" flavor (in which the time evolution is only carried out for the active subsystem, while the environment subsystems remain at their ground state), using and adapting the FDE implementation already available in the PyEmbed module of the scripting framework PyADF. The implementation was facilitated by the fact that both Psi4NumPy and PyADF, being native Python API, provided an ideal framework of development using the Python advantages in terms of code readability and reusability. We employed this new implementation to investigate the stability of the time-propagation procedure, which is based on an efficient predictor/corrector second-order midpoint Magnus propagator employing an exact diagonalization, in combination with the FDE scheme. We demonstrate that the inclusion of the FDE potential does not introduce any numerical instability in time propagation of the density matrix of the active subsystem, and in the limit of the weak external field, the numerical results for low-lying transition energies are consistent with those obtained using the reference FDE calculations based on the linear-response TDDFT. The method is found to give stable numerical results also in the presence of a strong external field inducing nonlinear effects. Preliminary results are reported for high harmonic generation (HHG) of a water molecule embedded in a small water cluster. The effect of the embedding potential is evident in the HHG spectrum reducing the number of the well-resolved high harmonics at high energy with respect to the free water. This is consistent with a shift toward lower ionization energy passing from an isolated water molecule to a small water cluster. The computational burden for the propagation step increases approximately linearly with the size of the surrounding frozen environment. Furthermore, we have also shown that the updating frequency of the embedding potential may be significantly reduced, much less than one per time step, without jeopardizing the accuracy of the transition energies.
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- Matteo De Santis
- Dipartimento di
Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università
degli Studi di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
- Istituto di Scienze
e Tecnologie Chimiche (SCITEC), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
c/o Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Istituto di Scienze
e Tecnologie Chimiche (SCITEC), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
c/o Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Gaußstr. 17, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Dipartimento di
Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università
degli Studi di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1083, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Istituto di Scienze
e Tecnologie Chimiche (SCITEC), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
c/o Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
- Dipartimento di Farmacia, Università
degli Studi ‘G. D’Annunzio’, Via dei Vestini 31, 66100 Chieti, Italy
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Mi W, Ramos P, Maranhao J, Pavanello M. Ab Initio Structure and Dynamics of CO 2 at Supercritical Conditions. J Phys Chem Lett 2019; 10:7554-7559. [PMID: 31738567 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b03054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Green technologies rely on green solvents and fluids. Among them, supercritical CO2 already finds many important applications. The molecular-level understanding of the dynamics and structure of this supercritical fluid is a prerequisite for rational design of future green technologies. Unfortunately, the commonly employed Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) is too computationally demanding to produce meaningfully converged dynamics within a reasonable time and with a reasonable computational effort. Thanks to subsystem DFT, we analyze finite-size effects by considering simulation cells of varying sizes (up to 256 independent molecules in the cell) and finite-time effects by running 100 ps trajectories. We find that the simulations are in reasonable and semiquantitative agreement with the available neutron diffraction experiments and that, as opposed to the gas phase, the CO2 molecules in the fluid are bent with an average OCO angle of 175.8°. Our simulations also confirm that the dimer T-shape is the most prevalent configuration. Our results further strengthen the experiment-simulation agreement for this fluid when comparing radial distribution functions and diffusion coefficient, confirming subsystem DFT as a viable tool for modeling structure and dynamics of condensed-phase systems.
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- Wenhui Mi
- Department of Chemistry , Rutgers University , Newark , New Jersey 07102 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Rutgers University , Newark , New Jersey 07102 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Rutgers University , Newark , New Jersey 07102 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Rutgers University , Newark , New Jersey 07102 , United States
- Department of Physics , Rutgers University , Newark , New Jersey 07102 , United States
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Tölle J, Böckers M, Niemeyer N, Neugebauer J. Inter-subsystem charge-transfer excitations in exact subsystem time-dependent density-functional theory. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:174109. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5121908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Johannes Tölle
- Theoretische Organische Chemie, Organisch-Chemisches Institut and Center for Multiscale Theory and Computation, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 40, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Theoretische Organische Chemie, Organisch-Chemisches Institut and Center for Multiscale Theory and Computation, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 40, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Theoretische Organische Chemie, Organisch-Chemisches Institut and Center for Multiscale Theory and Computation, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 40, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Theoretische Organische Chemie, Organisch-Chemisches Institut and Center for Multiscale Theory and Computation, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 40, 48149 Münster, Germany
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