Advances and new challenges to bimolecular reaction dynamics theory

J Li, B Zhao, D Xie, H Guo - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Dynamics of bimolecular reactions in the gas phase are of foundational importance in
combustion, atmospheric chemistry, interstellar chemistry, and plasma chemistry. These …

Non-adiabatic quantum interference in the ultracold Li+ LiNa→ Li 2+ Na reaction

BK Kendrick, H Li, M Li, S Kotochigova… - Physical Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Electronically non-adiabatic effects play an important role in many chemical reactions.
However, how these effects manifest in cold and ultracold chemistry remains largely …

Quantum wave packet treatment of cold nonadiabatic reactive scattering at the state-to-state level

B Buren, M Chen, Z Sun, H Guo - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Cold and ultracold collisions are dominated by quantum effects, such as resonances,
tunneling, and nonadiabatic transitions between different electronic states. Due to the …

Representation and conservation of angular momentum in the Born–Oppenheimer theory of polyatomic molecules

R Littlejohn, J Rawlinson, J Subotnik - The Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
This paper concerns the representation of angular momentum operators in the Born–
Oppenheimer theory of polyatomic molecules and the various forms of the associated …

An effective approximation of Coriolis coupling in reactive scattering: Application to the time-dependent wave packet calculations

H Chen, B Buren, Z Yang, M Chen - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Coriolis coupling plays a crucial role in reactive scattering, but dynamics calculations
including the complete Coriolis coupling significantly increase the difficulty of numerical …

Development of the Time-Independent Methods for the Cl + H2/F + HD Reaction Using Hyper-Spherical Coordinates Including (Full) Spin–Orbit Characteristics

R Wang, Z Sun, MH Alexander - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Recently, a combined study of high-resolution molecular crossed beam experiment and
accurate full-dimensional time-dependent theory, including full spin–orbit characteristics on …

Modelling biocompatible ionic liquids based on organic acids and amino acids: challenges for computational models and future perspectives

E Bodo - Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In this short review I shall highlight the basic principle and the difficulties that arise in
attempting the computational modeling of seemingly simple systems which hide an …

Stereodynamics-controlled product branching in the nonadiabatic H+ NaD→ Na (3s, 3p)+ HD reaction at low temperatures

B Buren, M Chen - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nonadiabatic processes play an important role at energies near or higher than conical
intersection of adiabatic potential energy surfaces in chemical reactions. In this work …

A neural network potential energy surface for the Li+ LiNa→ Li 2+ Na reaction and quantum dynamics study from ultracold to thermal energies

B Buren - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
An improved fundamental invariant neural network (FI-NN) approach for representing a
potential energy surface (PES) involving permutation symmetry is introduced in this work. In …

Diagonalizing the Born–Oppenheimer Hamiltonian via Moyal perturbation theory, nonadiabatic corrections, and translational degrees of freedom

R Littlejohn, J Rawlinson, J Subotnik - The Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
This article describes a method for calculating higher order or nonadiabatic corrections in
Born–Oppenheimer theory and its interaction with the translational degrees of freedom. The …