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Mei K, Borrelli WR, Vong A, Schwartz BJ. Using Machine Learning to Understand the Causes of Quantum Decoherence in Solution-Phase Bond-Breaking Reactions. J Phys Chem Lett 2024; 15:903-911. [PMID: 38241152 PMCID: PMC10839908 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c03474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2023] [Revised: 01/11/2024] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 01/21/2024]
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Decoherence is a fundamental phenomenon that occurs when an entangled quantum state interacts with its environment, leading to collapse of the wave function. The inevitability of decoherence provides one of the most intrinsic limits of quantum computing. However, there has been little study of the precise chemical motions from the environment that cause decoherence. Here, we use quantum molecular dynamics simulations to explore the photodissociation of Na2+ in liquid Ar, in which solvent fluctuations induce decoherence and thus determine the products of chemical bond breaking. We use machine learning to characterize the solute-solvent environment as a high-dimensional feature space that allows us to predict when and onto which photofragment the bonding electron will localize. We find that reaching a requisite photofragment separation and experiencing out-of-phase solvent collisions underlie decoherence during chemical bond breaking. Our work highlights the utility of machine learning for interpreting complex solution-phase chemical processes as well as identifies the molecular underpinnings of decoherence.
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- Kenneth
J. Mei
- Department of Chemistry &
Biochemistry, University of California,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Department of Chemistry &
Biochemistry, University of California,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Department of Chemistry &
Biochemistry, University of California,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Department of Chemistry &
Biochemistry, University of California,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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Vong A, Mei KJ, Widmer DR, Schwartz BJ. Solvent Control of Chemical Identity Can Change Photodissociation into Photoisomerization. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:7931-7938. [PMID: 35980729 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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In solution-phase chemistry, the solvent is often considered to be merely a medium that allows reacting solutes to encounter each other. In this work, however, we show that moderate locally specific solute-solvent interactions can affect not only the nature of the solute but also the types of reactive chemistry. We use quantum simulation methods to explore how solvent participation in solute chemical identity alters reactions involving the breaking of chemical bonds. In particular, we explore the photoexcitation dynamics of Na2+ dissolved in liquid tetrahydrofuran. In the gas phase, excitation of Na2+ directly leads to dissociation, but in solution, photoexcitation leads to an isomerization reaction involving rearrangement of the first-shell solvent molecules; this isomerization must go to completion before the solute can dissociate. Despite the complexity, the solution-phase reaction dynamics can be captured by a two-dimensional energy surface where one dimension involves only the isomerization of the first-shell solvent molecules.
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- Andy Vong
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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Structure and spectrum of the hydrated electron. A combined quantum chemical statistical mechanical simulation. J Mol Liq 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2019.111300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Marin TW, Janik I, Bartels DM. Ultraviolet charge-transfer-to-solvent spectroscopy of halide and hydroxide ions in subcritical and supercritical water. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:24419-24428. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cp03805a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Exploring charge-transfer-to-solvent excitation of aqueous halide anions by vacuum ultraviolet spectroscopy – new insights up to 380 °C.
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- Timothy W. Marin
- Department of Physical Sciences
- Benedictine University
- Lisle
- USA
- Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory
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Solvents can control solute molecular identity. Nat Chem 2018; 10:910-916. [PMID: 29785032 DOI: 10.1038/s41557-018-0066-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2017] [Accepted: 04/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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For solution-phase chemical reactions, the solvent is often considered simply as a medium to allow the reactants to encounter each other by diffusion. Although examples of direct solvent effects on molecular solutes exist, such as the compression of solute bonding electrons due to Pauli repulsion interactions, the solvent is not usually considered a part of the chemical species of interest. We show, using quantum simulations of Na2, that when there are local specific interactions between a solute and solvent that are energetically on the same order as a hydrogen bond, the solvent controls not only the bond dynamics but also the chemical identity of the solute. In tetrahydrofuran, dative bonding interactions between the solvent and Na atoms lead to unique coordination states that must cross a free energy barrier of ~8 kBT-undergoing a chemical reaction-to interconvert. Each coordination state has its own dynamics and spectroscopic signatures, highlighting the importance of considering the solvent in the identity of condensed-phase chemical systems.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jerzy Cioslowski
- Institute of Physics, University of Szczecin, Wielkopolska 15, 70-451 Szczecin, Poland and Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germany
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Klinger M, Schenk C, Henke F, Clayborne A, Schnepf A, Unterreiner AN. UV photoexcitation of a dissolved metalloid Ge9 cluster compound and its extensive ultrafast response. Chem Commun (Camb) 2015; 51:12278-81. [PMID: 26139520 DOI: 10.1039/c5cc04513d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Femtosecond pump-probe absorption spectroscopy in tetrahydrofuran solution has been used to investigate the dynamics of a metalloid cluster compound {Ge9[Si(SiMe3)3]3}(-). Upon UV photoexcitation, the transients in the near-infrared spectral region showed signatures reminiscent of excess electrons in THF (bound or quasi-free) whereas in the visible part excited state dynamics of the cluster complex dominates.
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- M Klinger
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Physical Chemistry, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Partial-wave decomposition of the ground-state wavefunction of the two-electron harmonium atom. Theor Chem Acc 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-015-1705-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Cioslowski J. The Coulomb, exchange, and correlation components of the electron-electron repulsion in harmonium atoms. J Chem Phys 2015; 142:114105. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4914021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Jerzy Cioslowski
- Institute of Physics, University of Szczecin, Wielkopolska 15, 70-451 Szczecin, Poland and Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germany
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Cioslowski J, Strasburger K, Matito E. Benchmark calculations on the lowest-energy singlet, triplet, and quintet states of the four-electron harmonium atom. J Chem Phys 2014; 141:044128. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4891301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The weak-correlation asymptotics of electronic properties of harmonium atoms comprising up to four electrons are investigated. In particular, closed-form expressions are derived for the first- and second-order contributions to the Hartree-Fock and correlation energies of eight electronic states that include three singlets, one doublet, two triplets, one quartet, and one quintet, six of which are singly determinantal and two are multi-determinantal. This diversity of states offers a much richer set of benchmarking tools for calibration of approximate electron-correlation methods than the previously published data. The availability of the computed energy contributions due to individual spinorbitals and their pairs present in the dominant Slater determinants further enhances the utility of these benchmarks.
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- Jerzy Cioslowski
- Institute of Physics, University of Szczecin, Wielkopolska 15, 70-451 Szczecin, Poland and Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germany
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Kahros A, Schwartz BJ. Going beyond the frozen core approximation: Development of coordinate-dependent pseudopotentials and application to Na 2+. J Chem Phys 2013; 138:054110. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4789425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Bischoff FA, Harrison RJ, Valeev EF. Computing many-body wave functions with guaranteed precision: The first-order Møller-Plesset wave function for the ground state of helium atom. J Chem Phys 2012; 137:104103. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4747538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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- Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, PO Box 2008, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6173, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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Glover WJ, Larsen RE, Schwartz BJ. First principles multielectron mixed quantum/classical simulations in the condensed phase. II. The charge-transfer-to-solvent states of sodium anions in liquid tetrahydrofuran. J Chem Phys 2010; 132:144102. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3352565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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