Quantum‐classical path integral evaluation of reaction rates with a near‐equilibrium flux formulation

A Bose, N Makri - International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Quantum‐classical formulations of reactive flux correlation functions require the partial Weyl–
Wigner transform of the thermalized flux operator, whose numerical evaluation is unstable …

The OpenMolcas Web: A Community-Driven Approach to Advancing Computational Chemistry

G Li Manni, I Fdez. Galván, A Alavi… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The developments of the open-source OpenMolcas chemistry software environment since
spring 2020 are described, with a focus on novel functionalities accessible in the stable …

On-the-fly adiabatically switched semiclassical initial value representation molecular dynamics for vibrational spectroscopy of biomolecules

G Botti, M Ceotto, R Conte - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Semiclassical (SC) vibrational spectroscopy is a technique capable of reproducing quantum
effects (such as zero-point energies, quantum resonances, and anharmonic overtones) from …

Improved semiclassical dynamics through adiabatic switching trajectory sampling

R Conte, L Parma, C Aieta, A Rognoni… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We introduce an improved semiclassical dynamics approach to quantum vibrational
spectroscopy. In this method, a harmonic-based phase space sampling is preliminarily …

Quantum versus classical unimolecular fragmentation rate constants and activation energies at finite temperature from direct dynamics simulations

F Angiolari, S Huppert, R Spezia - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In the present work, we investigate how nuclear quantum effects modify the temperature
dependent rate constants and, consequently, the activation energies in unimolecular …

Zero-cost corrections to influence functional coefficients from bath response functions

A Bose - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Recent work has shown that it is possible to circumvent the calculation of the spectral
density and directly generate the coefficients of the discretized influence functionals using …

Real-time path integral methods, quantum master equations, and classical vs quantum memory

S Chatterjee, N Makri - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2019 - ACS Publications
We investigate the use of accurate path integral methods, namely the quasi-adiabatic
propagator path integral (QuAPI) and the quantum-classical path integral (QCPI), for …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum-classical path integral with a harmonic treatment of the back-reaction

F Wang, N Makri - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The quantum-classical path integral (QCPI) provides a rigorous methodology for simulating
condensed phase processes when a fully quantum mechanical description of a small …

Vibrational State-to-State Scattering of Water from Cu (111): Comparison of Quantum and Quasiclassical Methods with Normal Mode and Adiabatic Switching …

L Zhang, J Chen, B Jiang - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2021 - ACS Publications
Vibrational energy transfer of a polyatomic molecule upon collision at a solid surface is of
fundamental importance in surface chemistry. As a full quantum treatment of this process is …

A divergence-free Wigner transform of the Boltzmann operator based on an effective frequency theory

JA Poulsen, G Nyman - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2021 - ACS Publications
The centroid effective frequency representation of path integrals as developed by Feynman
and Kleinert was originally aimed at calculating partition functions and related quantities in …