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Vanessa Audette Lynch1, Steven L Mielke, Donald G Truhlar
1Department of Chemistry and Supercomputer Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, USA.
Abstract:
Accurate quantum mechanical partition functions and absolute free energies of H(2)O(2) are determined using a realistic potential energy surface [J. Koput, S. Carter, and N. C. Handy, J. Phys. Chem. A 102, 6325 (1998)] for temperatures ranging from 300 to 2,400 K by using Monte Carlo path integral calculations with new, efficient polyatomic importance sampling methods. The path centroids are sampled in Jacobi coordinates via a set of independent ziggurat schemes. The calculations employed enhanced-same-path extrapolation of trapezoidal Trotter Fourier path integrals, and the paths were constructed using fast Fourier sine transforms. Importance sampling was also used in Fourier coefficient space, and adaptively optimized stratified sampling was used in configuration space. The free energy values obtained from the path-integral calculations are compared to separable-mode approximations, to the Pitzer-Gwinn approximation, and to values in thermodynamic tables. Our calculations support the recently proposed revisions to the JANAF tables.
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