Ring-polymer molecular dynamics: Quantum effects in chemical dynamics from classical trajectories in an extended phase space

S Habershon, DE Manolopoulos… - Annual review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews the ring-polymer molecular dynamics model for condensed-phase
quantum dynamics. This model, which involves classical evolution in an extended ring …

Recent advances in quantum scattering calculations on polyatomic bimolecular reactions

B Fu, X Shan, DH Zhang, DC Clary - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
This review surveys quantum scattering calculations on chemical reactions of polyatomic
molecules in the gas phase published in the last ten years. These calculations are useful …

How to remove the spurious resonances from ring polymer molecular dynamics

M Rossi, M Ceriotti, DE Manolopoulos - The Journal of chemical …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Two of the most successful methods that are presently available for simulating the quantum
dynamics of condensed phase systems are centroid molecular dynamics (CMD) and ring …

High-dimensional ab initio potential energy surfaces for reaction dynamics calculations

JM Bowman, G Czako, B Fu - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
There has been great progress in the development of potential energy surfaces (PESs) for
reaction dynamics that are fits to ab initio energies. The fitting techniques described here …

Chemical reaction rate coefficients from ring polymer molecular dynamics: Theory and practical applications

YV Suleimanov, FJ Aoiz, H Guo - The Journal of Physical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
This Feature Article presents an overview of the current status of ring polymer molecular
dynamics (RPMD) rate theory. We first analyze the RPMD approach and its connection to …

ReaxFF molecular dynamics study on pyrolysis of bicyclic compounds for aviation fuel

A Lele, H Kwon, K Ganeshan, Y Xuan, ACT van Duin - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we investigate the initial fuel pyrolysis of four bicyclic compounds, which are
potential alternative jet fuels, using ReaxFF force field based molecular dynamics (MD) …

Ring polymer molecular dynamics approach to quantum dissociative chemisorption rates

L Zhang, J Zuo, YV Suleimanov… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A ring polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) method is proposed for the calculation of the
dissociative chemisorption rate coefficient on surfaces. The RPMD rate theory is capable of …

Ring polymer molecular dynamics with surface hopping

P Shushkov, R Li, JC Tully - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We propose a ring polymer molecular dynamics method for the calculation of chemical rate
constants that incorporates nonadiabatic effects by the surface-hopping approach. Two …

Derivation of a true (t→ 0+) quantum transition-state theory. I. Uniqueness and equivalence to ring-polymer molecular dynamics transition-state-theory

TJH Hele, SC Althorpe - The Journal of chemical physics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Surprisingly, there exists a quantum flux-side time-correlation function which has a non-zero
t→ 0+ limit and thus yields a rigorous quantum generalization of classical transition-state …

Kinetically constrained ring-polymer molecular dynamics for non-adiabatic chemical reactions

AR Menzeleev, F Bell, TF Miller - The Journal of chemical physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We extend ring-polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) to allow for the direct simulation of
general, electronically non-adiabatic chemical processes. The kinetically constrained (KC) …