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Rey M, Carrington T. Using nested tensor train contracted basis functions with group theoretical techniques to compute (ro)-vibrational spectra of molecules with non-Abelian groups. J Chem Phys 2024; 161:044102. [PMID: 39037133 DOI: 10.1063/5.0219434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2024] [Accepted: 06/30/2024] [Indexed: 07/23/2024] Open
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In this paper, we use nested tensor-train contractions to compute vibrational and ro-vibrational energy levels of molecules with five and six atoms. At each step, we fully exploit symmetry by using symmetry adapted basis functions obtained from an irreducible tensor method. Contracted basis functions are determined by diagonalizing reduced dimensional Hamiltonian matrices. The size of matrices of eigenvectors, used to account for coupling between groups of coordinates, is reduced by discarding rows and columns. The size of the matrices that must be diagonalized is thus substantially reduced, making it possible to use direct eigensolvers, even for molecules with five and six atoms. The symmetry-adapted contracted vibrational basis functions have been used to compute J = 0 energy levels of the CH3CN (C3v) and J > 0 levels of CH4.
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- Michaël Rey
- Groupe de Spectrométrie Moléculaire et Atmosphérique, UMR CNRS 7331, BP 1039, F-51687 Reims Cedex 2, France
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- Chemistry Department, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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Martín Santa Daría A, Avila G, Mátyus E. Methane dimer rovibrational states and Raman transition moments. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:10254-10264. [PMID: 38497527 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp06222h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/19/2024]
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Benchmark-quality rovibrational data are reported for the methane dimer from variational nuclear motion computations using an ab initio intermolecular potential energy surface reported by [M. P. Metz et al., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21, 13504-13525]. A simple polarizability model is used to compute Raman transition moments that may be relevant for future direct observation of the intermolecular dynamics. Non-negligible ΔK ≠ 0 transition moments arise in this symmetric top system due to strong rovibrational couplings.
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- Alberto Martín Santa Daría
- Departamento de Química Física, University of Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
- ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Chemistry, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary.
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- ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Chemistry, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary.
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- ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Chemistry, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary.
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Lauvergnat D, Nauts A. Smolyak Scheme for solving the Schrödinger equation: Application to Malonaldehyde in Full Dimensionality. Chemphyschem 2023; 24:e202300501. [PMID: 37555577 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202300501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2023] [Revised: 08/08/2023] [Accepted: 08/09/2023] [Indexed: 08/10/2023]
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In 1963 Smolyak introduced an approach to overcome the exponential scaling with respect to the number of variables of the direct product size [S. A. Smolyak Soviet Mathematics Doklady, 4, 240 (1963)]. The main idea is to replace a single large direct product by a sum of selected small direct products. It was first used in quantum dynamics in 2009 by Avila and Carrington [G. Avila and T. Carrington, J. Chem. Phys., 131, 174103 (2009)]. Since then, several calculations have been published by Avila and Carrington and by other groups. In the present study, and to push the limit to larger and more complex systems, this scheme is combined with the use of an on-the-fly calculation of the kinetic energy operator and a Block-Davidson procedure to obtain eigenstates in our home-made Fortran codes, ElVibRot and Tnum-Tana. This was applied to compute the tunneling splitting of malonaldehyde in full dimensionality (21D) using the potential of Mizukami et al. [W. Mizukami, S. Habershon, and D.P. Tew, J. Chem. Phys. 141, 1443-10 (2014)]. Our tunneling splitting calculations, 21.7±0.3 cm-1 and 2.9±0.1 cm-1 , show excellent agreement with the experimental values, 21.6 cm-1 and 2.9 cm-1 for the normal isotopologue and the mono-deuterated one, respectively.
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- David Lauvergnat
- Institut de Chimie Physique, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay, France
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- Institut de Chimie Physique, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay, France
- Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences (NAPS), Université Catholique de Louvain, 2 Chemin du Cyclotron, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Mátyus E, Martín Santa Daría A, Avila G. Exact quantum dynamics developments for floppy molecular systems and complexes. Chem Commun (Camb) 2023; 59:366-381. [PMID: 36519578 DOI: 10.1039/d2cc05123k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Molecular rotation, vibration, internal rotation, isomerization, tunneling, intermolecular dynamics of weakly and strongly interacting systems, intra-to-inter-molecular energy transfer, hindered rotation and hindered translation over surfaces are important types of molecular motions. Their fundamentally correct and detailed description can be obtained by solving the nuclear Schrödinger equation on a potential energy surface. Many of the chemically interesting processes involve quantum nuclear motions which are 'delocalized' over multiple potential energy wells. These 'large-amplitude' motions in addition to the high dimensionality of the vibrational problem represent challenges to the current (ro)vibrational methodology. A review of the quantum nuclear motion methodology is provided, current bottlenecks of solving the nuclear Schrödinger equation are identified, and solution strategies are reviewed. Technical details, computational results, and analysis of these results in terms of limiting models and spectroscopically relevant concepts are highlighted for selected numerical examples.
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- Edit Mátyus
- ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Chemistry, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary.
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- ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Chemistry, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary.
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- ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Chemistry, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary.
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Tschöpe M, Rauhut G. Convergence of series expansions in rovibrational configuration interaction (RVCI) calculations. J Chem Phys 2022; 157:234105. [PMID: 36550038 DOI: 10.1063/5.0129828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Rotational and rovibrational spectra are a key in astrophysical studies, atmospheric science, pollution monitoring, and other fields of active research. The ab initio calculation of such spectra is fairly sensitive with respect to a multitude of parameters and all of them must be carefully monitored in order to yield reliable results. Besides the most obvious ones, i.e., the quality of the multidimensional potential energy surface and the vibrational wavefunctions, it is the representation of the μ-tensor within the Watson Hamiltonian, which has a significant impact on the desired line lists or simulated spectra. Within this work, we studied the dependence of high-resolution rovibrational spectra with respect to the truncation order of the μ-tensor within the rotational contribution and the Coriolis coupling operator of the Watson operator. Moreover, the dependence of the infrared intensities of the rovibrational transitions on an n-mode expansion of the dipole moment surface has been investigated as well. Benchmark calculations are provided for thioformaldehyde, which has already served as a test molecule in other studies and whose rovibrational spectrum was found to be fairly sensitive. All calculations rely on rovibrational configuration interaction theory and the discussed high-order terms of the μ-tensor are a newly implemented feature, whose theoretical basics are briefly discussed.
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- Martin Tschöpe
- Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 55, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 55, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Shanavas Rasheeda D, Martín Santa Daría A, Schröder B, Mátyus E, Behler J. High-dimensional neural network potentials for accurate vibrational frequencies: the formic acid dimer benchmark. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:29381-29392. [PMID: 36459127 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp03893e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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In recent years, machine learning potentials (MLP) for atomistic simulations have attracted a lot of attention in chemistry and materials science. Many new approaches have been developed with the primary aim to transfer the accuracy of electronic structure calculations to large condensed systems containing thousands of atoms. In spite of these advances, the reliability of modern MLPs in reproducing the subtle details of the multi-dimensional potential-energy surface is still difficult to assess for such systems. On the other hand, moderately sized systems enabling the application of tools for thorough and systematic quality-control are nowadays rarely investigated. In this work we use benchmark-quality harmonic and anharmonic vibrational frequencies as a sensitive probe for the validation of high-dimensional neural network potentials. For the case of the formic acid dimer, a frequently studied model system for which stringent spectroscopic data became recently available, we show that high-quality frequencies can be obtained from state-of-the-art calculations in excellent agreement with coupled cluster theory and experimental data.
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- Dilshana Shanavas Rasheeda
- Universität Göttingen, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Theoretische Chemie, Tammannstraβe 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
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- ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Chemistry, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary
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- Universität Göttingen, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Tammannstraβe 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Chemistry, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary
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- Universität Göttingen, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Theoretische Chemie, Tammannstraβe 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
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Papp D, Tajti V, Avila G, Mátyus E, Czakó G. CH 4·F − revisited: full-dimensional ab initio potential energy surface and variational vibrational states. Mol Phys 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2022.2113565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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- Dóra Papp
- MTA-SZTE Lendület Computational Reaction Dynamics Research Group, Interdisciplinary Excellence Centre and Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Institute of Chemistry, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- MTA-SZTE Lendület Computational Reaction Dynamics Research Group, Interdisciplinary Excellence Centre and Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Institute of Chemistry, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Chemistry, Budapest, Hungary
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- ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Chemistry, Budapest, Hungary
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- MTA-SZTE Lendület Computational Reaction Dynamics Research Group, Interdisciplinary Excellence Centre and Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Institute of Chemistry, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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Rey M. Novel methodology for systematically constructing global effective models from ab initio-based surfaces: A new insight into high-resolution molecular spectra analysis. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:224103. [PMID: 35705402 DOI: 10.1063/5.0089097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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In this paper, a novel methodology is presented for the construction of ab initio effective rotation-vibration spectroscopic models from potential energy and dipole moment surfaces. Non-empirical effective Hamiltonians are obtained via the block-diagonalization of selected variationally computed eigenvector matrices. For the first time, the derivation of an effective dipole moment is carried out in a systematic way. This general approach can be implemented quite easily in most of the variational computer codes and turns out to be a clear alternative to the rather involved Van Vleck perturbation method. Symmetry is exploited at all stages to translate first-principles calculations into a set of spectroscopic parameters to be further refined on experiment. We demonstrate on H2CO, PH3, CH4, C2H4, and SF6 that the proposed effective model can provide crucial information to spectroscopists within a very short time compared to empirical spectroscopic models. This approach brings a new insight into high-resolution spectrum analysis of polyatomic molecules and will be also of great help in the modeling of hot atmospheres where completeness is important.
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- Michael Rey
- Groupe de Spectrométrie Moléculaire et Atmosphérique, UMR CNRS 7331, BP 1039, F-51687 Reims Cedex 2, France
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Chen A, Benoit DM, Scribano Y, Nauts A, Lauvergnat D. Smolyak Algorithm Adapted to a System-Bath Separation: Application to an Encapsulated Molecule with Large-Amplitude Motions. J Chem Theory Comput 2022; 18:4366-4372. [PMID: 35584357 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A Smolyak algorithm adapted to system-bath separation is proposed for rigorous quantum simulations. This technique combines a sparse grid method with the system-bath concept in a specific configuration without limitations on the form of the Hamiltonian, thus achieving a highly efficient convergence of the excitation transitions for the "system" part. Our approach provides a general way to overcome the perennial convergence problem for the standard Smolyak algorithm and enables the simulation of floppy molecules with more than a hundred degrees of freedom. The efficiency of the present method is illustrated on the simulation of H2 caged in an sII clathrate hydrate including two kinds of cage modes. The transition energies are converged by increasing the number of normal modes of water molecules. Our results confirm the triplet splittings of both translational and rotational (j = 1) transitions of the H2 molecule. Furthermore, they show a slight increase of the translational transitions with respect to the ones in a rigid cage.
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- Ahai Chen
- Maison de la Simulation, UVSQ, CNRS, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.,Institut de Chimie Physique, UMR-CNRS 8000, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, 91405 Orsay, France
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- E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics, The University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Kingston upon Hull HU6 7RX, U.K
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- Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier, UMR-CNRS 5299, Université de Montpellier, 34095 Montpellier Cedex, France
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- Institut de Chimie Physique, UMR-CNRS 8000, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, 91405 Orsay, France.,Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences (NAPS), Université Catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- Institut de Chimie Physique, UMR-CNRS 8000, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, 91405 Orsay, France
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Smolyak representations with absorbing boundary conditions for reaction path Hamiltonian model of reactive scattering. Chem Phys Lett 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2021.139241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Sarka J, Poirier B. Hitting the Trifecta: How to Simultaneously Push the Limits of Schrödinger Solution with Respect to System Size, Convergence Accuracy, and Number of Computed States. J Chem Theory Comput 2021; 17:7732-7744. [PMID: 34761945 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.1c00824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Methods for solving the Schrödinger equation without approximation are in high demand but are notoriously computationally expensive. In practical terms, there are just three primary factors that currently limit what can be achieved: 1) system size/dimensionality; 2) energy level excitation; and 3) numerical convergence accuracy. Broadly speaking, current methods can deliver on any two of these three goals, but achieving all three at once remains an enormous challenge. In this paper, we shall demonstrate how to "hit the trifecta" in the context of molecular vibrational spectroscopy calculations. In particular, we compute the lowest 1000 vibrational states for the six-atom acetonitrile molecule (CH3CN), to a numerical convergence of accuracy 10-2 cm-1 or better. These calculations encompass all vibrational states throughout most of the dynamically relevant range (i.e., up to ∼4250 cm-1 above the ground state), computed in full quantum dimensionality (12 dimensions), to near spectroscopic accuracy. To our knowledge, no such vibrational spectroscopy calculation has ever previously been performed.
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- János Sarka
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, United States
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Martín Santa Daría A, Avila G, Mátyus E. Performance of a black-box-type rovibrational method in comparison with a tailor-made approach: Case study for the methane-water dimer. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:224302. [PMID: 34241197 DOI: 10.1063/5.0054512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The present work intends to join and respond to the excellent and thoroughly documented rovibrational study of X. G. Wang and T. Carrington, Jr. [J. Chem. Phys. 154, 124112 (2021)] that used an approach tailored for floppy dimers with an analytic dimer Hamiltonian and a non-product basis set including Wigner D functions. It is shown in the present work that the GENIUSH black-box-type rovibrational method can approach the performance of the tailor-made computation for the example of the floppy methane-water dimer. Rovibrational transition energies and intensities are obtained in the black-box-type computation with a twice as large basis set and in excellent numerical agreement in comparison with the more efficient tailor-made approach.
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- Institute of Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary
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Martín Santa Daría A, Avila G, Mátyus E. Fingerprint region of the formic acid dimer: variational vibrational computations in curvilinear coordinates. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:6526-6535. [PMID: 33690754 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp06289h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Curvilinear kinetic energy models are developed for variational nuclear motion computations including the inter- and the low-frequency intra-molecular degrees of freedom of the formic acid dimer. The coupling of the inter- and intra-molecular modes is studied by solving the vibrational Schrödinger equation for a series of vibrational models, from two up to ten active vibrational degrees of freedom by selecting various combinations of active modes and constrained coordinate values. Vibrational states, nodal assignment, and infrared vibrational intensity information is computed using the full-dimensional potential energy surface (PES) and electric dipole moment surface developed by Qu and Bowman [Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 24835; J. Chem. Phys., 2018, 148, 241713]. Good results are obtained for several fundamental and combination bands in comparison with jet-cooled vibrational spectroscopy experiments, but the description of the ν8 and ν9 fundamental vibrations, which are close in energy and have the same symmetry, appears to be problematic. For further progress in comparison with experiment, the potential energy surface, and in particular, its multi-dimensional couplings representation, requires further improvement.
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- Alberto Martín Santa Daría
- Institute of Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary.
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Quintas-Sánchez E, Dawes R. Spectroscopy and Scattering Studies Using Interpolated Ab Initio Potentials. Annu Rev Phys Chem 2021; 72:399-421. [PMID: 33503385 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-090519-051837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The Born-Oppenheimer potential energy surface (PES) has come a long way since its introduction in the 1920s, both conceptually and in predictive power for practical applications. Nevertheless, nearly 100 years later-despite astonishing advances in computational power-the state-of-the-art first-principles prediction of observables related to spectroscopy and scattering dynamics is surprisingly limited. For example, the water dimer, (H2O)2, with only six nuclei and 20 electrons, still presents a formidable challenge for full-dimensional variational calculations of bound states and is considered out of reach for rigorous scattering calculations. The extremely poor scaling of the most rigorous quantum methods is fundamental; however, recent progress in development of approximate methodologies has opened the door to fairly routine high-quality predictions, unthinkable 20 years ago. In this review, in relation to the workflow of spectroscopy and/or scattering studies, we summarize progress and challenges in the component areas of electronic structure calculations, PES fitting, and quantum dynamical calculations.
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- Ernesto Quintas-Sánchez
- Department of Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri 65409, USA;
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- Department of Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri 65409, USA;
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Avila G, Papp D, Czakó G, Mátyus E. Exact quantum dynamics background of dispersion interactions: case study for CH 4·Ar in full (12) dimensions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:2792-2802. [PMID: 31957778 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp04426d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A full-dimensional ab initio potential energy surface of spectroscopic quality is developed for the van-der-Waals complex of a methane molecule and an argon atom. Variational vibrational states are computed on this surface including all twelve (12) vibrational degrees of freedom of the methane-argon complex using the GENIUSH computer program and the Smolyak sparse grid method. The full-dimensional computations make it possible to study the fine details of the interaction and distortion effects and to make a direct assessment of the reduced-dimensionality models often used in the quantum dynamics study of weakly-bound complexes. A 12-dimensional (12D) vibrational computation including only a single harmonic oscillator basis function (9D) to describe the methane fragment (for which we use the ground-state effective structure as the reference structure) has a 0.40 cm-1 root-mean-square error (rms) with respect to the converged 12D bound-state excitation energies, which is less than half of the rms of the 3D model set up with the 〈r〉0 methane structure. Allowing 10 basis functions for the methane fragment in a 12D computation performs much better than the 3D models by reducing the rms of the bound state vibrational energies to 0.07 cm-1. The full-dimensional potential energy surface correctly describes the dissociation of the system, which together with further development of the variational (ro)vibrational methodology opens a route to the study of the role of dispersion forces in the excited methane vibrations and the energy transfer from the intra- to the intermolecular vibrational modes.
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- Gustavo Avila
- Institute of Chemistry, ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary.
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- MTA-SZTE Lendület Computational Reaction Dynamics Research Group, Interdisciplinary Excellence Centre and Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Institute of Chemistry, University of Szeged, Rerrich Béla tér 1, Szeged H-6720, Hungary.
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- MTA-SZTE Lendület Computational Reaction Dynamics Research Group, Interdisciplinary Excellence Centre and Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Institute of Chemistry, University of Szeged, Rerrich Béla tér 1, Szeged H-6720, Hungary.
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- Institute of Chemistry, ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary.
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Avila G, Matyus E. Full-dimensional (12D) variational vibrational states of CH 4·F -: Interplay of anharmonicity and tunneling. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:154301. [PMID: 31640378 DOI: 10.1063/1.5124532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The complex of a methane molecule and a fluoride anion represents a 12-dimensional (12D), four-well vibrational problem with multiple large-amplitude motions, which has challenged the quantum dynamics community for years. The present work reports vibrational band origins and tunneling splittings obtained in a full-dimensional variational vibrational computation using the GENIUSH program and the Smolyak quadrature scheme. The converged 12D vibrational band origins and tunneling splittings confirm complementary aspects of the earlier full- and reduced-dimensionality studies: (1) the tunneling splittings are smaller than 0.02 cm-1; (2) a single-well treatment is not sufficient (except perhaps the zero-point vibration) due to a significant anharmonicity over the wells; and thus, (3) a full-dimensional treatment appears to be necessary. The present computations extend to a higher energy range than earlier work, show that the tunneling splittings increase upon vibrational excitation of the complex, and indicate non-negligible "heavy-atom" tunneling.
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- Gustavo Avila
- Institute of Chemistry, ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Chemistry, ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary
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