Ab initio molecular dynamics: basic concepts, current trends and novel applications

ME Tuckerman - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
The field of ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD), in which finite temperature molecular
dynamics (MD) trajectories are generated with forces obtained from accurate'on the …

State-resolved probes of methane dissociation dynamics

LBF Juurlink, DR Killelea, AL Utz - Progress in Surface Science, 2009 - Elsevier
A new generation of experimental techniques quantifies the gas–surface reactivity of
polyatomic reactants prepared in a single quantum state. These experiments eliminate …

Breakdown of the adiabatic Born–Oppenheimer approximation in graphene

S Pisana, M Lazzeri, C Casiraghi, KS Novoselov… - Nature materials, 2007 - nature.com
Abstract The adiabatic Born–Oppenheimer approximation (ABO) has been the standard
ansatz to describe the interaction between electrons and nuclei since the early days of …

Representing high-dimensional potential-energy surfaces for reactions at surfaces by neural networks

S Lorenz, A Groß, M Scheffler - Chemical Physics Letters, 2004 - Elsevier
The determination of dissociative adsorption probabilities based on first-principles total-
energy calculations requires a numerically efficient and accurate interpolation scheme in …

Hydrogen detection near surfaces and shallow interfaces with resonant nuclear reaction analysis

M Wilde, K Fukutani - Surface science reports, 2014 - Elsevier
This review introduces hydrogen depth profiling by nuclear reaction analysis (NRA) via the
resonant 1 H (15 N, αγ) 12 C reaction as a versatile method for the highly depth-resolved …

Electronic excitations in metals and at metal surfaces

EV Chulkov, AG Borisov, JP Gauyacq… - Chemical …, 2006 - ACS Publications
Electron excitations in metal systems play an important role in many chemical and physical
phenomena. They are of paramount importance for energy transfer in photochemical …

Optimization of dp band centers as efficient active sites for solar energy conversion into H2 by tuning surface atomic arrangement

Y Zhang, D Ma, S Jiang, J Zhang, S Song - Applied Catalysis B …, 2024 - Elsevier
The lowered reaction energy barrier and accelerated dynamic behavior for photocatalytic H
2 O overall splitting (HOS) involving oriented chemisorption, activation and conversion of* H …

Quantum dynamics of polyatomic dissociative chemisorption on transition metal surfaces: mode specificity and bond selectivity

B Jiang, M Yang, D **e, H Guo - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Dissociative chemisorption is the initial and often rate-limiting step in many heterogeneous
processes. As a result, an in-depth understanding of the reaction dynamics of such …

Vibrational mode-specific reaction of methane on a nickel surface

RD Beck, P Maroni, DC Papageorgopoulos, TT Dang… - Science, 2003 - science.org
The dissociation of methane on a nickel catalyst is a key step in steam reforming of natural
gas for hydrogen production. Despite substantial effort in both experiment and theory, there …

Permutation invariant polynomial neural network approach to fitting potential energy surfaces. III. Molecule-surface interactions

B Jiang, H Guo - The Journal of chemical physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The permutation invariant polynomial-neural network (PIP-NN) method for constructing
highly accurate potential energy surfaces (PESs) for gas phase molecules is extended to …