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Multiscale Sampling of a Heterogeneous Water/Metal Catalyst Interface using Density Functional Theory and Force-Field Molecular Dynamics
Published on: April 12, 2019
Nature of Hops, Coordinates, and Detailed Balance for Nonadiabatic Simulations in the Condensed Phase
Maximilian F S J Menger1,2, Qi Ou3, Yihan Shao4
1Theoretische Chemie, Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut, University Heidelberg, INF 229, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Abstract:
Photoinduced processes play a crucial role in a multitude of important molecular phenomena. Accurately modeling these processes in an environment other than a vacuum requires a detailed description of the electronic states involved as well as how energy flows are coupled to the surroundings. Nonadiabatic effects must also be included in order to describe the exchange of energy between electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom correctly. In this work, we revisit the ring-opening reaction 1,3-cylohexadiene (CHD) in a solvent environment. Using our newly developed Interface for Non-Adiabatic Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics in Solvent (INAQS) we trace the evolution of the reaction via hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) surface hopping with a focus on the solvent's participation in the nonadiabatic relaxation process and the long-time approach to equilibrium. We explicitly include the MM solvent contribution to the nonadiabatic coupling vector─enabling an accurate approach to equilibrium at long times─and find that in highly multidimensional systems gradients can have little or nothing to do with the nonadiabatic couplings.
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