Quantum and classical dynamics of reactive scattering of H 2 from metal surfaces

GJ Kroes, C Díaz - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
We review the state-of-the art in dynamics calculations on the reactive scattering of H2 from
metal surfaces, which is an important model system of an elementary reaction that is …

[HTML][HTML] Non-adiabatic effects in elementary reaction processes at metal surfaces

M Alducin, RD Muiño, JI Juaristi - Progress in Surface Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Great success has been achieved in the modeling of gas-surface elementary processes by
the use of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. However, in metal surfaces low energy …

Computational approaches to dissociative chemisorption on metals: towards chemical accuracy

GJ Kroes - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Perspective: How to understand electronic friction

W Dou, JE Subotnik - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

Born-Oppenheimer dynamics, electronic friction, and the inclusion of electron-electron interactions

W Dou, G Miao, JE Subotnik - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
We present a universal expression for the electronic friction as felt by a set of classical
nuclear degrees of freedom (DOFs) coupled to a manifold of quantum electronic DOFs; no …

Ab initio molecular dynamics with simultaneous electron and phonon excitations: Application to the relaxation of hot atoms and molecules on metal surfaces

D Novko, M Blanco-Rey, JI Juaristi, M Alducin - Physical review B, 2015 - APS
The relaxation dynamics of hot H, N, and N 2 on Pd (100), Ag (111), and Fe (110),
respectively, is studied by means of ab initio molecular dynamics with electronic friction. This …

Electronic friction-based vibrational lifetimes of molecular adsorbates: Beyond the independent-atom approximation

SP Rittmeyer, J Meyer, JI Juaristi, K Reuter - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
We assess the accuracy of vibrational damping rates of diatomic adsorbates on metal
surfaces as calculated within the local-density friction approximation (LDFA). An atoms-in …

Energy dissipation at metal surfaces

SP Rittmeyer, VJ Bukas, K Reuter - Advances in Physics: X, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Conversion of energy at the gas–solid interface lies at the heart of many industrial
applications such as heterogeneous catalysis. Dissipation of parts of this energy into the …

Electron–hole pair effects in polyatomic dissociative chemisorption: Water on Ni (111)

B Jiang, M Alducin, H Guo - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The influence of electron–hole pairs in dissociative chemisorption of a polyatomic molecule
(water) on metal surfaces is assessed for the first time using a friction approach. The atomic …

Competition between Electron and Phonon Excitations in the Scattering of Nitrogen Atoms<? format?> and Molecules off Tungsten and Silver Metal Surfaces

L Martin-Gondre, M Alducin, GA Bocan, R Díez Muiño… - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
We investigate the role played by electron-hole pair and phonon excitations in the
interaction of reactive gas molecules and atoms with metal surfaces. We present a …