Direct dynamics with nuclear–electronic orbital density functional theory

Z Tao, Q Yu, S Roy… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Direct dynamics simulations of chemical reactions typically require the selection
of a method for generating the potential energy surfaces and a method for the dynamical …

First-principles approach for coupled quantum dynamics of electrons and protons in heterogeneous systems

J Xu, R Zhou, V Blum, TE Li, S Hammes-Schiffer… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The coupled quantum dynamics of electrons and protons is ubiquitous in many dynamical
processes involving light-matter interaction, such as solar energy conversion in chemical …

Enhancing the expressivity of variational neural, and hardware-efficient quantum states through orbital rotations

JR Moreno, J Cohn, D Sels, M Motta - arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.11588, 2023 - arxiv.org
Variational approaches, such as variational Monte Carlo (VMC) or the variational quantum
eigensolver (VQE), are powerful techniques to tackle the ground-state many-electron …

A brand-new type of excited-state proton transfer (ESIPT) molecule based on sulfoxide/sulfenic acid tautomerism

R Su, Z Huang - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The excited-state proton transfer (ESIPT) behavior of organic fluorophores has attracted
much attention due to their unique photophysical properties. So far, ESIPT studies have …

Tautomeric contributions to the absorption spectrum of [2, 2′-bipyridyl]-3, 3′-diol in water unveiled by molecular dynamics with accurate quantum mechanically …

G Prampolini, VK Porwal, A Carof, F Ingrosso - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, we provide a realistic description of the tautomers of [2, 2′-bipyridyl]-3, 3′-diol
(BPOH2) and their relative populations in water solution, eventually validating the …

Beyond Electrons: Correlation and Self‐Energy in Multicomponent Density Functional Theory

C Holzer, YJ Franzke - ChemPhysChem, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Post‐Kohn‐Sham methods are used to evaluate the ground‐state correlation
energy and the orbital self‐energy of systems consisting of multiple flavors of different …

[HTML][HTML] Nuclear–electronic orbital approach to quantization of protons in periodic electronic structure calculations

J Xu, R Zhou, Z Tao, C Malbon, V Blum… - The Journal of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The nuclear–electronic orbital (NEO) method is a well-established approach for treating
nuclei quantum mechanically in molecular systems beyond the usual Born–Oppenheimer …

Classical nuclear motion: Comparison to approaches with quantum mechanical nuclear motion

I Frank - Hydrogen, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ab initio molecular dynamics combines a classical description of nuclear motion with a
density-functional description of the electronic cloud. This approach nicely describes …

Nuclear quantum effect and H/D isotope effect in excited state intramolecular proton transfer and electron‐induced intramolecular proton transfer reactions in 8 …

T Udagawa, I Hattori, Y Kanematsu… - … Journal of Quantum …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The optimum exponent α (α opt) value in 1 s Gaussian type function (GTF) was analyzed to
develop nuclear basis function for multicomponent quantum mechanics (MC_QM) …

[HTML][HTML] Analytical gradients for nuclear–electronic orbital multistate density functional theory: Geometry optimizations and reaction paths

Q Yu, PE Schneider, S Hammes-Schiffer - The Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Hydrogen tunneling plays a critical role in many biologically and chemically important
processes. The nuclear–electronic orbital multistate density functional theory (NEO-MSDFT) …