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Bi RH, Dou W. Electronic friction near metal surface: Incorporating nuclear quantum effect with ring polymer molecular dynamics. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:074110. [PMID: 38380747 DOI: 10.1063/5.0187646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2023] [Accepted: 01/25/2024] [Indexed: 02/22/2024] Open
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The molecular dynamics with electronic friction (MDEF) approach can accurately describe nonadiabatic effects at metal surfaces in the weakly nonadiabatic limit. That being said, the MDEF approach treats nuclear motion classically such that the nuclear quantum effects are completely missing in the approach. To address this limitation, we combine Electronic Friction with Ring Polymer Molecular Dynamics (EF-RPMD). In particular, we apply the averaged electronic friction from the metal surface to the centroid mode of the ring polymer. We benchmark our approach against quantum dynamics to show that EF-RPMD can accurately capture zero-point energy as well as transition dynamics. In addition, we show that EF-RPMD can correctly predict the electronic transfer rate near metal surfaces in the tunneling limit as well as the barrier crossing limit. We expect that our approach will be very useful to study nonadiabatic dynamics near metal surfaces when nuclear quantum effects become essential.
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- Rui-Hao Bi
- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Westlake University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310024, China
- Institute of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310024, China
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Westlake University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310024, China
- Institute of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310024, China
- Department of Physics, School of Science, Westlake University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310024, China
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Chen J, Subotnik J. Nonadiabatic Potential Energy Surfaces for a Molecule on a Surface as Found by Constrained Complete Active Space Theory. J Phys Chem Lett 2023:5665-5673. [PMID: 37311218 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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In order to study electron-transfer mediated chemical processes on a metal surface, one requires not one but two potential energy surfaces (one ground state and one excited state) as in Marcus theory. In this letter, we report that a novel, dynamically weighted, state-averaged constrained CASSCF(2,2) (DW-SA-cCASSCF(2,2)) can produce such surfaces for the Anderson impurity model. Both ground and excited state potentials are smooth, they incorporate states with a charge transfer character, and the accuracy of the ground state surface can be verified for some model problems by renormalization group theory. Future development of gradients and nonadiabatic derivative couplings should allow for the study of nonadiabatic dynamics for molecules near metal surfaces.
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- Junhan Chen
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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Toldo JM, do Casal MT, Ventura E, do Monte SA, Barbatti M. Surface hopping modeling of charge and energy transfer in active environments. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:8293-8316. [PMID: 36916738 PMCID: PMC10034598 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp00247k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/05/2023]
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An active environment is any atomic or molecular system changing a chromophore's nonadiabatic dynamics compared to the isolated molecule. The action of the environment on the chromophore occurs by changing the potential energy landscape and triggering new energy and charge flows unavailable in the vacuum. Surface hopping is a mixed quantum-classical approach whose extreme flexibility has made it the primary platform for implementing novel methodologies to investigate the nonadiabatic dynamics of a chromophore in active environments. This Perspective paper surveys the latest developments in the field, focusing on charge and energy transfer processes.
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- Departamento de Química, CCEN, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 58059-900, João Pessoa, Brazil.
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- Departamento de Química, CCEN, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 58059-900, João Pessoa, Brazil.
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- Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, ICR, Marseille, France.
- Institut Universitaire de France, 75231, Paris, France
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Zhang Y, Box CL, Schäfer T, Kandratsenka A, Wodtke AM, Maurer RJ, Jiang B. Stereodynamics of adiabatic and non-adiabatic energy transfer in a molecule surface encounter. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:19753-19760. [PMID: 35971747 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp03312g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Molecular energy transfer and reactions at solid surfaces depend on the molecular orientation relative to the surface. While such steric effects have been largely understood in electronically adiabatic processes, the orientation-dependent energy transfer in NO scattering from Au(111) was complicated by electron-mediated nonadiabatic effects, thus lacking a clear interpretation and posing a great challenge for theories. Herein, we investigate the stereodynamics of adiabatic and nonadiabatic energy transfer via molecular dynamics simulations of NO(v = 3) scattering from Au(111) using realistic initial orientation distributions based on accurate neural network fitted adiabatic potential energy surface and electronic friction tensor. Our results reproduce the observed stronger vibrational relaxation for N-first orientation and enhanced rotational rainbow for O-first orientation, and demonstrate how adiabatic anisotropic interactions steer molecules into the more attractive N-first orientation to experience more significant energy transfer. Remaining disagreements with experiment suggest the direction for further developments of nonadiabatic theories for gas-surface scattering.
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- Yaolong Zhang
- Department of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.
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- Institute for Physical Chemistry, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, 37077, Germany.,Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, 37077, Germany
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- Institute for Physical Chemistry, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, 37077, Germany.,Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, 37077, Germany
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- Institute for Physical Chemistry, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, 37077, Germany.,Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, 37077, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.
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- Department of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.
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Pradhan CS, Jain A. Detailed Balance and Independent Electron Surface-Hopping Method: The Importance of Decoherence and Correct Calculation of Diabatic Populations. J Chem Theory Comput 2022; 18:4615-4626. [PMID: 35880817 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We benchmark and improve the independent electron surface-hopping (IESH) method developed by J. C. Tully's group for nonadiabatic simulations near metal surfaces. We have incorporated decoherence within the IESH method as well as implemented a scheme for the accurate calculation of diabatic populations. We benchmark the original IESH method with the above inclusions for a model system to calculate rate constants and long-time populations. The original IESH method fails to capture the detailed balance for some of the parameters, which is corrected with the inclusion of decoherence and accurate calculation of diabatic populations. Total rate constants are well captured both within the original IESH method as well as within our modified IESH.
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- Chinmay S Pradhan
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India
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Litman Y, Pós ES, Box CL, Martinazzo R, Maurer RJ, Rossi M. Dissipative tunneling rates through the incorporation of first-principles electronic friction in instanton rate theory. II. Benchmarks and applications. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:194107. [PMID: 35597654 DOI: 10.1063/5.0088400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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In Paper I [Litman et al., J. Chem. Phys. (in press) (2022)], we presented the ring-polymer instanton with explicit friction (RPI-EF) method and showed how it can be connected to the ab initio electronic friction formalism. This framework allows for the calculation of tunneling reaction rates that incorporate the quantum nature of the nuclei and certain types of non-adiabatic effects (NAEs) present in metals. In this paper, we analyze the performance of RPI-EF on model potentials and apply it to realistic systems. For a 1D double-well model, we benchmark the method against numerically exact results obtained from multi-layer multi-configuration time-dependent Hartree calculations. We demonstrate that RPI-EF is accurate for medium and high friction strengths and less accurate for extremely low friction values. We also show quantitatively how the inclusion of NAEs lowers the crossover temperature into the deep tunneling regime, reduces the tunneling rates, and, in certain regimes, steers the quantum dynamics by modifying the tunneling pathways. As a showcase of the efficiency of this method, we present a study of hydrogen and deuterium hopping between neighboring interstitial sites in selected bulk metals. The results show that multidimensional vibrational coupling and nuclear quantum effects have a larger impact than NAEs on the tunneling rates of diffusion in metals. Together with Paper I [Litman et al., J. Chem. Phys. (in press) (2022)], these results advance the calculations of dissipative tunneling rates from first principles.
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- Y Litman
- MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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Smits B, Litjens LG, Somers MF. Accurate Description of the Quantum Dynamical Surface Temperature Effects on the Dissociative Chemisorption of H 2 from Cu(111). J Chem Phys 2022; 156:214706. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0094985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Accurately describing surface temperature effects for the dissociative scattering of H2 on a metal surface on a quantum dynamical level is currently one of the open challenges for theoretical surface scientists. We present the first quantum dynamical (QD) simulations of hydrogen dissociating on a Cu(111) surface which accurately describe all relevant surface temperature effects, using the static corrugation model (SCM). The reaction probabilities we obtain show very good agreement with those found using quasi-classical dynamics (QCD), both for individual surface slabs and for an averaged, thus Monte-Carlo sampled, set of thermally distorted surface configurations. Rovibrationally elastic scattering probabilities show a much clearer difference between the QCD and QD results, which appears to be traceable back towards thermally distorted surface configurations with very low dissociation probabilities and underlines the importance of investigating more observables than just dissociation. By reducing the number of distorted surface atoms included in the dynamical model, we also show that only including one, or even three, surface atoms is generally not enough to accurately describe the effects of surface temperature on dissociation and elastic scattering. These results are a major step forward in accurately describing hydrogen scattering from a thermally excited Cu(111) surface, and open up a pathway to better describe reaction and scattering from other relevant crystal facets, such as stepped surfaces, at moderately elevated surface temperatures where quantum effects are expected to play a more important role in the dissociation of H2 on Cu.
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- Bauke Smits
- Theoretical Chemistry, Leiden University Institute of Chemistry, Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Netherlands
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Gardner J, Douglas-Gallardo OA, Stark WG, Westermayr J, Janke SM, Habershon S, Maurer RJ. NQCDynamics.jl: A Julia package for nonadiabatic quantum classical molecular dynamics in the condensed phase. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:174801. [PMID: 35525649 DOI: 10.1063/5.0089436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Accurate and efficient methods to simulate nonadiabatic and quantum nuclear effects in high-dimensional and dissipative systems are crucial for the prediction of chemical dynamics in the condensed phase. To facilitate effective development, code sharing, and uptake of newly developed dynamics methods, it is important that software implementations can be easily accessed and built upon. Using the Julia programming language, we have developed the NQCDynamics.jl package, which provides a framework for established and emerging methods for performing semiclassical and mixed quantum-classical dynamics in the condensed phase. The code provides several interfaces to existing atomistic simulation frameworks, electronic structure codes, and machine learning representations. In addition to the existing methods, the package provides infrastructure for developing and deploying new dynamics methods, which we hope will benefit reproducibility and code sharing in the field of condensed phase quantum dynamics. Herein, we present our code design choices and the specific Julia programming features from which they benefit. We further demonstrate the capabilities of the package on two examples of chemical dynamics in the condensed phase: the population dynamics of the spin-boson model as described by a wide variety of semiclassical and mixed quantum-classical nonadiabatic methods and the reactive scattering of H2 on Ag(111) using the molecular dynamics with electronic friction method. Together, they exemplify the broad scope of the package to study effective model Hamiltonians and realistic atomistic systems.
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- James Gardner
- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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Zhou X, Meng G, Guo H, Jiang B. First-Principles Insights into Adiabatic and Nonadiabatic Vibrational Energy-Transfer Dynamics during Molecular Scattering from Metal Surfaces: The Importance of Surface Reactivity. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:3450-3461. [PMID: 35412832 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c00593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Energy transfer is ubiquitous during molecular collisions and reactions at gas-surface interfaces. Of particular importance is vibrational energy transfer because of its relevance to bond forming and breaking. In this Perspective, we review recent first-principles studies on vibrational energy-transfer dynamics during molecular scattering from metal surfaces at the state-to-state level. Taking several representative systems as examples, we highlight the intrinsic correlation between vibrational energy transfer in nonreactive scattering and surface reactivity and how it operates in both electronically adiabatic and nonadiabatic pathways. Adiabatically, the presence of a dissociation barrier softens a bond in the impinging molecule and increases its couplings with other molecular modes and surface phonons. In the meantime, the stronger interaction between the molecule and the surface also changes the electronic structure at the barrier, resulting in an increase of nonadiabatic effects. We further discuss future prospects toward a more quantitative understanding of this important surface dynamical process.
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- Xueyao Zhou
- Department of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Department of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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- Department of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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Kang K, Shakouri K, Kroes GJ, Kleyn AW, Meyer J. Three-dimensional Langevin dynamics of N atom scattering from N-covered Ag(111). Chem Phys 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2022.111557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Gu K, Wei F, Cai Y, Lin S, Guo H. Dynamics of Initial Hydrogen Spillover from a Single Atom Platinum Active Site to the Cu(111) Host Surface: The Impact of Substrate Electron-Hole Pairs. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:8423-8429. [PMID: 34436916 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c02019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The initial impulsive diffusion of hot hydrogen atoms resulted from the dissociative chemisorption of H2 at atomically dispersed Pt atoms embedded in Cu(111) is investigated using ab initio molecular dynamics. Upon dissociation, one of the two hydrogen atoms tends to roam away from the dissociation site while the other remains trapped. It is shown that the fraction of diffusion and the average diffusion length increase with the incident energy and H2 vibrational excitation, due apparently to the increased initial kinetic energy of the hot atoms. Most importantly, the strong interaction with surface electron-hole pairs, modeled using an electronic friction model, is shown to play an important role in rapid energy dissipation and significant retardation of the impulsive diffusion.
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- Kaixuan Gu
- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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Zhou X, Zhang Y, Yin R, Hu C, Jiang B. Neural Network Representations for Studying
Gas‐Surface
Reaction Dynamics: Beyond the
Born‐Oppenheimer
Static Surface Approximation
†. CHINESE J CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/cjoc.202100303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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- Xueyao Zhou
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics University of Science and Technology of China Hefei Anhui 230026 China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics University of Science and Technology of China Hefei Anhui 230026 China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics University of Science and Technology of China Hefei Anhui 230026 China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics University of Science and Technology of China Hefei Anhui 230026 China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics University of Science and Technology of China Hefei Anhui 230026 China
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Douglas-Gallardo OA, Box CL, Maurer RJ. Plasmonic enhancement of molecular hydrogen dissociation on metallic magnesium nanoclusters. NANOSCALE 2021; 13:11058-11068. [PMID: 34152348 DOI: 10.1039/d1nr02033a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Light-driven plasmonic enhancement of chemical reactions on metal catalysts is a promising strategy to achieve highly selective and efficient chemical transformations. The study of plasmonic catalyst materials has traditionally focused on late transition metals such as Au, Ag, and Cu. In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the plasmonic properties of a set of earth-abundant elements such as Mg, which exhibit interesting hydrogenation chemistry with potential applications in hydrogen storage. This work explores the optical, electronic, and catalytic properties of a set of metallic Mg nanoclusters with up to 2057 atoms using time-dependent density functional tight-binding and density functional theory calculations. Our results show that Mg nanoclusters are able to produce highly energetic hot electrons with energies of up to 4 eV. By electronic structure analysis, we find that these hot electrons energetically align with electronic states of physisorbed molecular hydrogen, occupation of which by hot electrons can promote the hydrogen dissociation reaction. We also find that the reverse reaction, hydrogen evolution on metallic Mg, can potentially be promoted by hot electrons, but following a different mechanism. Thus, from a theoretical perspective, Mg nanoclusters display very promising behaviour for their use in light promoted storage and release of hydrogen.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.
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Auerbach DJ, Tully JC, Wodtke AM. Chemical dynamics from the gas‐phase to surfaces. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ntls.10005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Daniel J. Auerbach
- Institut für physikalische Chemie Georg‐August Universität Göttingen Göttingen Germany
- Abteilung für Dynamik an Oberflächen Max‐Planck‐Institut für biophysikalische Chemie Göttingen Germany
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- Department of Chemistry Yale University New Haven Connecticut USA
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- Institut für physikalische Chemie Georg‐August Universität Göttingen Göttingen Germany
- Abteilung für Dynamik an Oberflächen Max‐Planck‐Institut für biophysikalische Chemie Göttingen Germany
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Smeets EF, Kroes GJ. Performance of Made Simple Meta-GGA Functionals with rVV10 Nonlocal Correlation for H 2 + Cu(111), D 2 + Ag(111), H 2 + Au(111), and D 2 + Pt(111). THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. C, NANOMATERIALS AND INTERFACES 2021; 125:8993-9010. [PMID: 34084265 PMCID: PMC8162760 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c11034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2020] [Revised: 04/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Accurately modeling heterogeneous catalysis requires accurate descriptions of rate-controlling elementary reactions of molecules on metal surfaces, but standard density functionals (DFs) are not accurate enough for this. The problem can be solved with the specific reaction parameter approach to density functional theory (SRP-DFT), but the transferability of SRP DFs among chemically related systems is limited. We combine the MS-PBEl, MS-B86bl, and MS-RPBEl semilocal made simple (MS) meta-generalized gradient approximation (GGA) (mGGA) DFs with rVV10 nonlocal correlation, and we evaluate their performance for the hydrogen (H2) + Cu(111), deuterium (D2) + Ag(111), H2 + Au(111), and D2 + Pt(111) gas-surface systems. The three MS mGGA DFs that have been combined with rVV10 nonlocal correlation were not fitted to reproduce particular experiments, nor has the b parameter present in rVV10 been reoptimized. Of the three DFs obtained the MS-PBEl-rVV10 DF yields an excellent description of van der Waals well geometries. The three original MS mGGA DFs gave a highly accurate description of the metals, which was comparable in quality to that obtained with the PBEsol DF. Here, we find that combining the three original MS mGGA DFs with rVV10 nonlocal correlation comes at the cost of a slightly less accurate description of the metal. However, the description of the metal obtained in this way is still better than the descriptions obtained with SRP DFs specifically optimized for individual systems. Using the Born-Oppenheimer static surface (BOSS) model, simulations of molecular beam dissociative chemisorption experiments yield chemical accuracy for the D2 + Ag(111) and D2 + Pt(111) systems. A comparison between calculated and measured E 1/2(ν, J) parameters describing associative desorption suggests chemical accuracy for the associative desorption of H2 from Au(111) as well. Our results suggest that ascending Jacob's ladder to the mGGA rung yields increasingly more accurate results for gas-surface reactions of H2 (D2) interacting with late transition metals.
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- Egidius
W. F. Smeets
- Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden
Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden
Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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Kroes GJ. Computational approaches to dissociative chemisorption on metals: towards chemical accuracy. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:8962-9048. [PMID: 33885053 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp00044f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We review the state-of-the-art in the theory of dissociative chemisorption (DC) of small gas phase molecules on metal surfaces, which is important to modeling heterogeneous catalysis for practical reasons, and for achieving an understanding of the wealth of experimental information that exists for this topic, for fundamental reasons. We first give a quick overview of the experimental state of the field. Turning to the theory, we address the challenge that barrier heights (Eb, which are not observables) for DC on metals cannot yet be calculated with chemical accuracy, although embedded correlated wave function theory and diffusion Monte-Carlo are moving in this direction. For benchmarking, at present chemically accurate Eb can only be derived from dynamics calculations based on a semi-empirically derived density functional (DF), by computing a sticking curve and demonstrating that it is shifted from the curve measured in a supersonic beam experiment by no more than 1 kcal mol-1. The approach capable of delivering this accuracy is called the specific reaction parameter (SRP) approach to density functional theory (DFT). SRP-DFT relies on DFT and on dynamics calculations, which are most efficiently performed if a potential energy surface (PES) is available. We therefore present a brief review of the DFs that now exist, also considering their performance on databases for Eb for gas phase reactions and DC on metals, and for adsorption to metals. We also consider expressions for SRP-DFs and briefly discuss other electronic structure methods that have addressed the interaction of molecules with metal surfaces. An overview is presented of dynamical models, which make a distinction as to whether or not, and which dissipative channels are modeled, the dissipative channels being surface phonons and electronically non-adiabatic channels such as electron-hole pair excitation. We also discuss the dynamical methods that have been used, such as the quasi-classical trajectory method and quantum dynamical methods like the time-dependent wave packet method and the reaction path Hamiltonian method. Limits on the accuracy of these methods are discussed for DC of diatomic and polyatomic molecules on metal surfaces, paying particular attention to reduced dimensionality approximations that still have to be invoked in wave packet calculations on polyatomic molecules like CH4. We also address the accuracy of fitting methods, such as recent machine learning methods (like neural network methods) and the corrugation reducing procedure. In discussing the calculation of observables we emphasize the importance of modeling the properties of the supersonic beams in simulating the sticking probability curves measured in the associated experiments. We show that chemically accurate barrier heights have now been extracted for DC in 11 molecule-metal surface systems, some of which form the most accurate core of the only existing database of Eb for DC reactions on metal surfaces (SBH10). The SRP-DFs (or candidate SRP-DFs) that have been derived show transferability in many cases, i.e., they have been shown also to yield chemically accurate Eb for chemically related systems. This can in principle be exploited in simulating rates of catalyzed reactions on nano-particles containing facets and edges, as SRP-DFs may be transferable among systems in which a molecule dissociates on low index and stepped surfaces of the same metal. In many instances SRP-DFs have allowed important conclusions regarding the mechanisms underlying observed experimental trends. An important recent observation is that SRP-DFT based on semi-local exchange DFs has so far only been successful for systems for which the difference of the metal work function and the molecule's electron affinity exceeds 7 eV. A main challenge to SRP-DFT is to extend its applicability to the other systems, which involve a range of important DC reactions of e.g. O2, H2O, NH3, CO2, and CH3OH. Recent calculations employing a PES based on a screened hybrid exchange functional suggest that the road to success may be based on using exchange functionals of this category.
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- Geert-Jan Kroes
- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Box C, Zhang Y, Yin R, Jiang B, Maurer RJ. Determining the Effect of Hot Electron Dissipation on Molecular Scattering Experiments at Metal Surfaces. JACS AU 2021; 1:164-173. [PMID: 34467282 PMCID: PMC8395621 DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.0c00066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Nonadiabatic effects that arise from the concerted motion of electrons and atoms at comparable energy and time scales are omnipresent in thermal and light-driven chemistry at metal surfaces. Excited (hot) electrons can measurably affect molecule-metal reactions by contributing to state-dependent reaction probabilities. Vibrational state-to-state scattering of NO on Au(111) has been one of the most studied examples in this regard, providing a testing ground for developing various nonadiabatic theories. This system is often cited as the prime example for the failure of electronic friction theory, a very efficient model accounting for dissipative forces on metal-adsorbed molecules due to the creation of hot electrons in the metal. However, the exact failings compared to experiment and their origin from theory are not established for any system because dynamic properties are affected by many compounding simulation errors of which the quality of nonadiabatic treatment is just one. We use a high-dimensional machine learning representation of electronic structure theory to minimize errors that arise from quantum chemistry. This allows us to perform a comprehensive quantitative analysis of the performance of nonadiabatic molecular dynamics in describing vibrational state-to-state scattering of NO on Au(111) and compare directly to adiabatic results. We find that electronic friction theory accurately predicts elastic and single-quantum energy loss but underestimates multiquantum energy loss and overestimates molecular trapping at high vibrational excitation. Our analysis reveals that multiquantum energy loss can potentially be remedied within friction theory whereas the overestimation of trapping constitutes a genuine breakdown of electronic friction theory. Addressing this overestimation for dynamic processes in catalysis and surface chemistry will likely require more sophisticated theories.
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- Connor
L. Box
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Hefei
National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, Department
of Chemical Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry
and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei
National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, Department
of Chemical Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry
and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei
National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, Department
of Chemical Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry
and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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Jin Z, Subotnik JE. Nonadiabatic Dynamics at Metal Surfaces: Fewest Switches Surface Hopping with Electronic Relaxation. J Chem Theory Comput 2021; 17:614-626. [PMID: 33512137 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A new scheme is proposed for modeling molecular nonadiabatic dynamics near metal surfaces. The charge-transfer character of such dynamics is exploited to construct an efficient reduced representation for the electronic structure. In this representation, the fewest switches surface hopping (FSSH) approach can be naturally modified to include electronic relaxation (ER). The resulting FSSH-ER method is valid across a wide range of coupling strengths as supported by tests applied to the Anderson-Holstein model for electron transfer. Future work will combine this scheme with ab initio electronic structure calculations.
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- Zuxin Jin
- Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 S. 34 Street, Cret Wing 141D, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6243, United States
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- Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 S. 34 Street, Cret Wing 141D, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6243, United States
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Smeets EWF, Kroes GJ. Designing new SRP density functionals including non-local vdW-DF2 correlation for H 2 + Cu(111) and their transferability to H 2 + Ag(111), Au(111) and Pt(111). Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 23:7875-7901. [PMID: 33291129 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp05173j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Specific reaction parameter density functionals (SRP-DFs) that can describe dissociative chemisorption molecular beam experiments of hydrogen (H2) on cold transition metal surfaces with chemical accuracy have so far been shown to be only transferable among different facets of the same metal, but not among different metals. We design new SRP-DFs that include non-local vdW-DF2 correlation for the H2 + Cu(111) system, and evaluate their transferability to the highly activated H2 + Ag(111) and H2 + Au(111) systems and the non-activated H2 + Pt(111) system. We design our functionals for the H2 + Cu(111) system since it is the best studied system both theoretically and experimentally. Here we demonstrate that a SRP-DF fitted to reproduce molecular beam sticking experiments for H2 + Cu(111) with chemical accuracy can also describe such experiments for H2 + Pt(111) with chemical accuracy, and vice versa. Chemically accurate functionals have been obtained that perform very well with respect to reported van der Waals well geometries, and which improve the description of the metal over current generalized gradient approximation (GGA) based SRP-DFs. From a systematic comparison of our new SRP-DFs that include non-local correlation to previously developed SRP-DFs, for both activated and non-activated systems, we identify non-local correlation as a key ingredient in the construction of transferable SRP-DFs for H2 interacting with transition metals. Our results are in excellent agreement with experiment when accurately measured observables are available. It is however clear from our analysis that, except for the H2 + Cu(111) system, there is a need for more, more varied, and more accurately described experiments in order to further improve the design of SRP-DFs. Additionally, we confirm that, when including non-local correlation, the sticking of H2 on Cu(111) is still well described quasi-classically.
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- Egidius W F Smeets
- Univeristeit Leiden, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Gu L, Wu R. Density functional study of relaxation of adsorbate vibration modes: Dominance of anharmonic interaction. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:184109. [PMID: 33187426 DOI: 10.1063/5.0027915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Formulation and density functional workflow for calculating the lifetime of vibrational modes of molecular adsorbates on solid surfaces due to vibration-phonon coupling are presented. The anharmonic coupling is invoked to give the correct description of the origin of temperature dependence. Using pyrrolidine (C4H9N) absorbed on the Cu(001) surface as a concrete example, we show that the anharmonic coupling can be one to two orders more significant than the harmonic interaction for the broadening of vibrational spectra, especially as temperature increases. These results challenge the common assumption that the anharmonic interaction is weak and call for attention of considering its effect in quantum relaxation and related problems.
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- Lei Gu
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA
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Jiang B, Li J, Guo H. High-Fidelity Potential Energy Surfaces for Gas-Phase and Gas-Surface Scattering Processes from Machine Learning. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:5120-5131. [PMID: 32517472 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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In this Perspective, we review recent advances in constructing high-fidelity potential energy surfaces (PESs) from discrete ab initio points, using machine learning tools. Such PESs, albeit with substantial initial investments, provide significantly higher efficiency than direct dynamics methods and/or high accuracy at a level that is not affordable by on-the-fly approaches. These PESs not only are a necessity for quantum dynamical studies because of delocalization of wave packets but also enable the study of low-probability and long-time events in (quasi-)classical treatments. Our focus here is on inelastic and reactive scattering processes, which are more challenging than bound systems because of the involvement of continua. Relevant applications and developments for dynamical processes in both the gas phase and at gas-surface interfaces are discussed.
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- Bin Jiang
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Chongqing Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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Erpenbeck A, Thoss M. Hierarchical quantum master equation approach to vibronic reaction dynamics at metal surfaces. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:191101. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5128206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- A. Erpenbeck
- Institute of Physics, Albert-Ludwig University Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 3, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, Albert-Ludwig University Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 3, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Shen L, Tang D, Xie B, Fang WH. Quantum Trajectory Mean-Field Method for Nonadiabatic Dynamics in Photochemistry. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:7337-7350. [PMID: 31373814 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b03480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The mixed quantum-classical dynamical approaches have been widely used to study nonadiabatic phenomena in photochemistry and photobiology, in which the time evolutions of the electronic and nuclear subsystems are treated based on quantum and classical mechanics, respectively. The key issue is how to deal with coherence and decoherence during the propagation of the two subsystems, which has been the subject of numerous investigations for a few decades. A brief description on Ehrenfest mean-field and surface-hopping (SH) methods is first provided, and then different algorithms for treatment of quantum decoherence are reviewed in the present paper. More attentions were paid to quantum trajectory mean-field (QTMF) method under the picture of quantum measurements, which is able to overcome the overcoherence problem. Furthermore, the combined QTMF and SH algorithm is proposed in the present work, which takes advantages of the QTMF and SH methods. The potential to extend the applicability of the QTMF method was briefly discussed, such as the generalization to other type of nonadiabatic transitions, the combination with multiscale computational models, and possible improvements on its accuracy and efficiency by using machine-learning techniques.
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- Lin Shen
- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry , Beijing Normal University , Beijing 100875 , P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry , Beijing Normal University , Beijing 100875 , P. R. China
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- Hangzhou Institute of Advanced Studies , Zhejiang Normal University , 1108 Gengwen Road , Hangzhou 311231 , Zhejiang P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry , Beijing Normal University , Beijing 100875 , P. R. China
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Fedorov DA, Levine BG. Nonadiabatic Quantum Molecular Dynamics in Dense Manifolds of Electronic States. J Phys Chem Lett 2019; 10:4542-4548. [PMID: 31342748 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b01902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Most nonadiabatic molecular dynamics methods require the determination of a basis of adiabatic or diabatic electronic states at every time step, but in dense manifolds of electronic states, such approaches become intractable. A notable exception is Ehrenfest molecular dynamics, which can be implemented without explicit determination of such a basis but suffers from unphysical behavior when propagation on a mean-field potential energy surface (PES) does not accurately reflect the true dynamics on multiple electronic states. Here we introduce the multiple cloning for dense manifolds of states (MCDMS) method, a systematically improvable approximation to the multiple cloning method. MCDMS avoids both the mean-field PES problem and the need to compute the full electronic spectrum. This is achieved by reformulating multiple cloning to use a subspace of approximate eigenstates constructed from the time-dependent Ehrenfest electronic wave function. By application to model systems, we show that this approach allows a substantial reduction in the size of the required electronic basis without significant loss in accuracy.
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- Dmitry A Fedorov
- Department of Chemistry , Michigan State University , East Lansing , Michigan 48824 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Michigan State University , East Lansing , Michigan 48824 , United States
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Spiering P, Shakouri K, Behler J, Kroes GJ, Meyer J. Orbital-Dependent Electronic Friction Significantly Affects the Description of Reactive Scattering of N 2 from Ru(0001). J Phys Chem Lett 2019; 10:2957-2962. [PMID: 31088059 PMCID: PMC6558642 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b00523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2019] [Accepted: 05/15/2019] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Electron-hole pair (ehp) excitation is thought to substantially affect the dynamics of molecules on metal surfaces, but it is not clear whether this can be better addressed by orbital-dependent friction (ODF) or the local density friction approximation (LDFA). We investigate the effect of ehp excitation on the dissociative chemisorption of N2 on and its inelastic scattering from Ru(0001), which is the benchmark system of highly activated dissociation, with these two different models. ODF is in better agreement with the best experimental estimates for the reaction probabilities than LDFA, yields results for vibrational excitation in better agreement with experiment, but slightly overestimates the translational energy loss during scattering. N2 on Ru(0001) is thus the first system for which the ODF and LDFA approaches are shown to yield substantially different results for easily accessible experimental observables, including reaction probabilities.
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- Paul Spiering
- Gorlaeus Laberatories, Leiden Institute of Chemistry , Leiden University , P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden , The Netherlands
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- Gorlaeus Laberatories, Leiden Institute of Chemistry , Leiden University , P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden , The Netherlands
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- Universität Göttingen , Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Theoretische Chemie, Tammannstr. 6 , 37077 Göttingen , Germany
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- Gorlaeus Laberatories, Leiden Institute of Chemistry , Leiden University , P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden , The Netherlands
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- Gorlaeus Laberatories, Leiden Institute of Chemistry , Leiden University , P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden , The Netherlands
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Jiang B, Guo H. Dynamics in reactions on metal surfaces: A theoretical perspective. J Chem Phys 2019; 150:180901. [PMID: 31091904 DOI: 10.1063/1.5096869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Recent advances in theoretical characterization of reaction dynamics on metal surfaces are reviewed. It is shown that the widely available density functional theory of metals and their interactions with molecules have enabled first principles theoretical models for treating surface reaction dynamics. The new theoretical tools include methods to construct high-dimensional adiabatic potential energy surfaces, to characterize nonadiabatic processes within the electronic friction models, and to describe dynamics both quantum mechanically and classically. Three prototypical surface reactions, namely, dissociative chemisorption, Eley-Rideal reactions, and recombinative desorption, are surveyed with a focus on some representative examples. While principles governing gas phase reaction dynamics may still be applicable, the presence of the surface introduces a higher level of complexity due to strong interaction between the molecular species and metal substrate. Furthermore, most of these reactive processes are impacted by energy exchange with surface phonons and/or electron-hole pair excitations. These theoretical studies help to interpret and rationalize experimental observations and, in some cases, guide experimental explorations. Knowledge acquired in these fundamental studies is expected to impact many practical problems in a wide range of interfacial processes.
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- Bin Jiang
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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Li J, Zhang Y, Zheng J. Intermolecular energy flows between surface molecules on metal nanoparticles. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:4240-4245. [PMID: 30747170 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp05932b] [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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Three model systems are designed to investigate energy transport between molecules on metal nanoparticle surfaces. Energy is rapidly transferred from one carbon monoxide (CO) molecule to another CO molecule or an organic molecule on adjacent surface sites of 2 nm Pt particles within a few picoseconds. On the contrary, energy flow from a surface organic molecule to an adjacent CO molecule is significantly slower and, in fact, within experimental sensitivity and uncertainty the transfer is not observed. The energy transport on particle surfaces (about 2 km s-1) is almost ten times faster than inside a molecule (200 m s-1). The seemingly perplexing observations can be well explained by the combination of electron/vibration and vibration/vibration coupling mechanisms, which mediate molecular energy dynamics on metal nanoparticle surfaces: the strong electron/vibration coupling rapidly converts CO vibrational energy into heat that can be immediately sensed by nearby molecules; but the vibration/vibration coupling dissipates the vibrational excitation in the organic molecule as low-frequency intramolecular vibrations that may or may not couple to surface electronic motions.
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- Jiebo Li
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100083, China
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Ghassemi EN, Smeets EWF, Somers MF, Kroes GJ, Groot IMN, Juurlink LBF, Füchsel G. Transferability of the Specific Reaction Parameter Density Functional for H 2 + Pt(111) to H 2 + Pt(211). THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. C, NANOMATERIALS AND INTERFACES 2019; 123:2973-2986. [PMID: 30792827 PMCID: PMC6376921 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b11018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2018] [Revised: 12/20/2018] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The accurate description of heterogeneously catalyzed reactions may require chemically accurate evaluation of barriers for reactions of molecules at the edges of metal nanoparticles. It was recently shown that a semiempirical density functional describing the interaction of a molecule dissociating on a flat metal surface (CHD3 + Pt(111)) is transferable to the same molecule reacting on a stepped surface of the same metal (Pt(211)). However, validation of the method for additional systems is desirable. To address the question whether the specific reaction parameter (SRP) functional that describes H2 + Pt(111) with chemical accuracy is also capable of accurately describing H2 + Pt(211), we have performed molecular beam simulations with the quasi-classical trajectory (QCT) method, using the SRP functional developed for H2 + Pt(111). Our calculations used the Born-Oppenheimer static surface model. The accuracy of the QCT method was assessed by comparison with quantum dynamics results for reaction of the ro-vibrational ground state of H2. The theoretical results for sticking of H2 and D2 on Pt(211) are in quite good agreement with the experiment, but uncertainties remain because of a lack of accuracy of the QCT simulations at low incidence energies and possible inaccuracies in the reported experimental incidence energies at high energies. We also investigated the nonadiabatic effect of electron-hole pair excitation on the reactivity using the molecular dynamics with the electron friction (MDEF) method, employing the local density friction approximation (LDFA). Only small effects of electron-hole pair excitation on sticking are found.
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- Elham Nour Ghassemi
- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Gorlaeus Laboratories,
Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden,
The Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Gorlaeus Laboratories,
Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden,
The Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Gorlaeus Laboratories,
Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden,
The Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Gorlaeus Laboratories,
Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden,
The Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Gorlaeus Laboratories,
Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden,
The Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Gorlaeus Laboratories,
Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden,
The Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Gorlaeus Laboratories,
Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden,
The Netherlands
- Institut für Chemie und
Biochemie—Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Freie
Universität Berlin, Takustraße 3, 14195 Berlin,
Germany
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Füchsel G, Zhou X, Jiang B, Juaristi JI, Alducin M, Guo H, Kroes GJ. Reactive and Nonreactive Scattering of HCl from Au(111): An Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study. THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. C, NANOMATERIALS AND INTERFACES 2019; 123:2287-2299. [PMID: 30740194 PMCID: PMC6366682 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b10686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2018] [Revised: 12/19/2018] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The HCl + Au(111) system has recently become a benchmark for highly activated dissociative chemisorption, which presumably is strongly affected by electron-hole pair excitation. Previous dynamics calculations, which were based on density functional theory at the generalized gradient approximation level (GGA-DFT) for the molecule-surface interaction, have all overestimated measured reaction probabilities by at least an order of magnitude. Here, we perform ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) and AIMD with electronic friction (AIMDEF) calculations employing a density functional that includes the attractive van der Waals interaction. Our calculations model the simultaneous and possibly synergistic effects of surface temperature, surface atom motion, electron-hole pair excitation, the molecular beam conditions of the experiments, and the van der Waals interaction on the reactivity. We find that reaction probabilities computed with AIMDEF and the SRP32-vdW functional still overestimate the measured reaction probabilities, by a factor 18 for the highest incidence energy at which measurements were performed (≈2.5 eV). Even granting that the experiment could have underestimated the sticking probability by about a factor three, this still translates into a considerable overestimation of the reactivity by the current theory. Likewise, scaled transition probabilities for vibrational excitation from ν = 1, j = 1 to ν = 2 are overestimated by the AIMDEF theory, by factors 3-8 depending on the initial conditions modeled. Energy losses to the surface and translational energy losses are, however, in good agreement with experimental values.
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- Gernot Füchsel
- Leiden
Institute of Chemistry, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
- Institut
für Chemie und Biochemie—Physikalische und Theoretische
Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustraße3, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- E-mail: (G.F.)
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- Hefei
National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, Department
of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry and Materials, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei
National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, Department
of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry and Materials, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Departamento
de Física de Materiales, Facultad
de Químicas (UPV/EHU), Apartado 1072, 20080 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
- Centro
de Física de Materiales CFM/MPC (CSIC-UPV/EHU), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
- Donostia
International Physics Center (DIPC), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
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- Centro
de Física de Materiales CFM/MPC (CSIC-UPV/EHU), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
- Donostia
International Physics Center (DIPC), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
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- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University
of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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- Leiden
Institute of Chemistry, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
- E-mail: . Phone: +31 (0)71 527
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Zhang Y, Maurer RJ, Guo H, Jiang B. Hot-electron effects during reactive scattering of H 2 from Ag(111): the interplay between mode-specific electronic friction and the potential energy landscape. Chem Sci 2019; 10:1089-1097. [PMID: 30774906 PMCID: PMC6346630 DOI: 10.1039/c8sc03955k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2018] [Accepted: 11/07/2018] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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The breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation gives rise to nonadiabatic effects in gas-surface reactions at metal surfaces. However, for a given reaction, it remains unclear which factors quantitatively determine whether these effects measurably contribute to surface reactivity in catalysis and photo/electrochemistry. Here, we systematically investigate hot electron effects during H2 scattering from Ag(111) using electronic friction theory. We combine first-principles calculations of tensorial friction by time-dependent perturbation theory based on density functional theory and an analytical neural network representation, to overcome the limitations of existing approximations and explicitly simulate mode-specific nonadiabatic energy loss during molecular dynamics. Despite sizable hot-electron-induced energy loss, no measurable nonadiabatic effects can be found for H2 scattering on Ag(111). This is in stark contrast to previous reports for vibrationally excited H2 scattering on Cu(111). By detailed analysis of the two systems, we attribute this discrepancy to a subtle interplay between the magnitude of electronic friction along intramolecular vibration and the shape of the potential energy landscape that controls the molecular velocity at impact. On the basis of this characterization, we offer guidance for the search of highly nonadiabatic surface reactions.
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- Yaolong Zhang
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale , Department of Chemical Physics , University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei , Anhui 230026 , China .
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- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Scientific Computing , University of Warwick , Gibbet Hill Road , Coventry , CV4 7AL , UK .
- Department of Chemistry , Yale University , New Haven , Connecticut 06520 , USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , University of New Mexico , Albuquerque , New Mexico 87131 , USA
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale , Department of Chemical Physics , University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei , Anhui 230026 , China .
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Zhou X, Jiang B. A modified generalized Langevin oscillator model for activated gas-surface reactions. J Chem Phys 2019; 150:024704. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5078541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Xueyao Zhou
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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Maurer RJ, Zhang Y, Guo H, Jiang B. Hot electron effects during reactive scattering of H2 from Ag(111): assessing the sensitivity to initial conditions, coupling magnitude, and electronic temperature. Faraday Discuss 2019; 214:105-121. [DOI: 10.1039/c8fd00140e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We use an analytical representation of electronic friction for H2 on Ag(111) to assess the validity and robustness of the MDEF method based on TDPT.
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- Reinhard J. Maurer
- Department of Chemistry
- Centre for Scientific Computing
- University of Warwick
- Coventry
- UK
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale
- Department of Chemical Physics
- University of Science and Technology of China
- Hefei
- China
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
- University of New Mexico
- Albuquerque
- USA
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale
- Department of Chemical Physics
- University of Science and Technology of China
- Hefei
- China
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Loaiza I, Izmaylov AF. On the breakdown of the Ehrenfest method for molecular dynamics on surfaces. J Chem Phys 2018; 149:214101. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5055768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- Ignacio Loaiza
- Chemical Physics Theory Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada and Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario M1C 1A4, Canada
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- Chemical Physics Theory Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada and Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario M1C 1A4, Canada
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Nour Ghassemi E, Somers M, Kroes GJ. Test of the Transferability of the Specific Reaction Parameter Functional for H 2 + Cu(111) to D 2 + Ag(111). THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. C, NANOMATERIALS AND INTERFACES 2018; 122:22939-22952. [PMID: 30344838 PMCID: PMC6189907 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b05658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2018] [Revised: 09/04/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The accurate description of the dissociative chemisorption of a molecule on a metal surface requires a chemically accurate description of the molecule-surface interaction. Previously, it was shown that the specific reaction parameter approach to density functional theory (SRP-DFT) enables accurate descriptions of the reaction of dihydrogen with metal surfaces in, for instance, H2 + Pt(111), H2 + Cu(111), and H2 + Cu(100). SRP-DFT likewise allowed a chemically accurate description of dissociation of methane on Ni(111) and Pt(111), and the SRP functional for CH4 + Ni(111) was transferable to CH4 + Pt(111), where Ni and Pt belong to the same group. Here, we investigate whether the SRP density functional derived for H2 + Cu(111) also gives chemically accurate results for H2 + Ag(111), where Ag belongs to the same group as Cu. To do this, we have performed quasi-classical trajectory calculations using the six-dimensional potential energy surface of H2 + Ag(111) within the Born-Oppenheimer static surface approximation. The computed reaction probabilities are compared with both state-resolved associative desorption and molecular beam sticking experiments. Our results do not yet show transferability, as the computed sticking probabilities and initial-state selected reaction probabilities are shifted relative to experiment to higher energies by about 2-3 kcal/mol. The lack of transferability may be due to the different character of the SRP functionals for H2 + Cu and CH4 + group 10 metals, the latter containing a van der Waals correlation functional and the former not.
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Zhou L, Jiang B, Alducin M, Guo H. Communication: Fingerprints of reaction mechanisms in product distributions: Eley-Rideal-type reactions between D and CD3/Cu(111). J Chem Phys 2018; 149:031101. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5039749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Linsen Zhou
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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- Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Centro de Física de Materiales Centro Mixto, CFM/MPC (CSIC-UPV/EHU), P. Manuel de Lardizabal 5, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain
- Donostia International Physics Center DIPC, P. Manuel de Lardizabal 4, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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Electronic friction is a correction to the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, whereby nuclei in motion experience a drag in the presence of a manifold of electronic states. The notion of electronic friction has a long history and has been (re-)discovered in the context of a wide variety of different chemical and physical systems including, but not limited to, surface scattering events, surface reactions or chemisorption, electrochemistry, and conduction through molecular-(or nano-) junctions. Over the years, quite a few different forms of electronic friction have been offered in the literature. In this perspective, we briefly review these developments of electronic friction, highlighting the fact that we can now isolate a single, unifying form for (Markovian) electronic friction. We also focus on the role of electron-electron interactions for understanding frictional effects and offer our thoughts on the strengths and weaknesses of using electronic friction to model dynamics in general.
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- Wenjie Dou
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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Luo X, Zhou X, Jiang B. Effects of surface motion and electron-hole pair excitations in CO2 dissociation and scattering on Ni(100). J Chem Phys 2018; 148:174702. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5025029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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- Xuan Luo
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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Spiering P, Meyer J. Testing Electronic Friction Models: Vibrational De-excitation in Scattering of H 2 and D 2 from Cu(111). J Phys Chem Lett 2018; 9:1803-1808. [PMID: 29528648 PMCID: PMC5890313 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b03182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2017] [Accepted: 03/12/2018] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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At present, molecular dynamics with electronic friction (MDEF) is the workhorse model to go beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation in modeling dynamics of molecules at metal surfaces. Concomitant friction coefficients can be calculated with either the local density friction approximation (LDFA) or orbital-dependent friction (ODF), which, unlike LDFA, accounts for anisotropy while relying on other approximations. Due to the computational cost of ODF, extensive high-dimensional MDEF trajectory calculations of experimentally measurable observables have hitherto only been performed based on LDFA. We overcome this limitation with a continuous neural-network-based representation. In our first application to the scattering of vibrationally excited H2 and D2 from Cu(111), we predict up to three times higher vibrational de-excitation probabilities with ODF than with LDFA. These results indicate that anisotropic electronic friction can be important for specific molecular observables. Future experiments can test for this "fingerprint" of different approximations underlying state-of-the-art MDEF.
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- Paul Spiering
- Leiden Institute of Chemistry,
Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry,
Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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Ge A, Rudshteyn B, Zhu J, Maurer RJ, Batista VS, Lian T. Electron-Hole-Pair-Induced Vibrational Energy Relaxation of Rhenium Catalysts on Gold Surfaces. J Phys Chem Lett 2018; 9:406-412. [PMID: 29227669 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b02885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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A combination of time-resolved vibrational spectroscopy and density functional theory techniques have been applied to study the vibrational energy relaxation dynamics of the Re(4,4'-dicyano-2,2'-bipyridine)(CO)3Cl (Re(CO)3Cl) catalyst for CO2 to CO conversion bound to gold surfaces. The kinetics of vibrational relaxation exhibits a biexponential decay including an ultrafast initial relaxation and complete recovery of the ground vibrational state. Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations and time-dependent perturbation theory reveal the former to be due to vibrational population exchange between CO stretching modes and the latter to be a combination of intramolecular vibrational relaxation (IVR) and electron-hole pair (EHP)-induced energy transfer into the gold substrate. EHP-induced energy transfer from the Re(CO)3Cl adsorbate into the gold surface occurs on the same time scale as IVR of Re(CO)3Cl in aprotic solvents. Therefore, it is expected to be particularly relevant to understanding the reduced catalytic activity of the homogeneous catalyst when anchored to a metal surface.
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- Aimin Ge
- Department of Chemistry, Emory University , Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University , New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
- Yale Energy Sciences Institute, Yale University , West Haven, Connecticut 06516, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Emory University , Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University , New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick , Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University , New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
- Yale Energy Sciences Institute, Yale University , West Haven, Connecticut 06516, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Emory University , Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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Zhou L, Zhou X, Alducin M, Zhang L, Jiang B, Guo H. Ab initio molecular dynamics study of the Eley-Rideal reaction of H + Cl–Au(111) → HCl + Au(111): Impact of energy dissipation to surface phonons and electron-hole pairs. J Chem Phys 2018; 148:014702. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5016054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Linsen Zhou
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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- Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Centro de Física de Materiales Centro Mixto, CSIC-UPV/EHU, P. Manuel de Lardizabal 5, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain
- Donostia International Physics Center DIPC, P. Manuel de Lardizabal 4, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain
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- Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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Galparsoro O, Busnengo HF, Martinez AE, Juaristi JI, Alducin M, Larregaray P. Energy dissipation to tungsten surfaces upon hot-atom and Eley–Rideal recombination of H2. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:21334-21344. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp03690j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Adiabatic and nonadiabatic quasi-classical molecular dynamics simulations are performed to investigate the role of electron–hole pair excitations in hot-atom and Eley–Rideal H2 recombination mechanisms on H-covered W(100). The influence of the surface structure is analyzed by comparing with previous results for W(110).
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- Instituto de Física Rosario (IFIR)
- CONICET-UNR
- Esmeralda y Ocampo
- 2000 Rosario
- Argentina
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- Instituto de Física Rosario (IFIR)
- CONICET-UNR
- Esmeralda y Ocampo
- 2000 Rosario
- Argentina
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- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC)
- Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4
- 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián
- Spain
- Departamento de Física de Materiales
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- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC)
- Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4
- 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián
- Spain
- Centro de Física de Materiales CFM/MPC (CSIC-UPV/EHU)
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