Art, fact and artifact: reflections on the cross-talk between theory and experiment

J Herzfeld - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
With the increasing sophistication of each, theory and experiment have become highly
specialized endeavors conducted by separate research groups. A result has been a …

Modeling electronic response properties with an explicit-electron machine learning potential

M Cools-Ceuppens, J Dambre… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Explicit-electron force fields introduce electrons or electron pairs as semiclassical particles
in force fields or empirical potentials, which are suitable for molecular dynamics simulations …

A reactive force field with coarse-grained electrons for liquid water

I Leven, H Hao, AK Das… - The journal of physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nonreactive force fields are defined by perturbations of electron density that are relatively
small, whereas chemical reactivity involves wholesale electronic rearrangements that make …

A new framework for frequency-dependent polarizable force fields

YX Cheng, T Verstraelen - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
A frequency-dependent extension of the polarizable force field “Atom-Condensed Kohn–
Sham density functional theory approximated to the second-order”(ACKS2)[Verstraelen et …

Revealing excess protons in the infrared spectrum of liquid water

VG Artemov, E Uykur, S Roh, AV Pronin… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The most common species in liquid water, next to neutral H 2 O molecules, are the H 3 O+
and OH-ions. In a dynamic picture, their exact concentrations depend on the time scale at …

Multi-center decomposition of molecular densities: A numerical perspective

YX Cheng, E Cancès, V Ehrlacher… - The Journal of …, 2025 - pubs.aip.org
In this study, we analyze various Iterative Stockholder Analysis (ISA) methods for molecular
density partitioning, focusing on the numerical performance of the recently proposed Linear …

Emergence of Linnett's “double quartets” from a model of “Lewis dots”

J Herzfeld - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Chemists routinely explicate molecular structures and chemical reactions in terms of the
propensities of semiclassical valence electrons (aka “Lewis dots”). Typically, the electrons …

A Carbon Is a Carbon Is a Carbon: Orbital-Free Simulations of Hydrocarbon Chemistry without Resort to Atom Types

J Li, X Song, P Li, J Herzfeld - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Semiclassical electrons (aka Lewis dots) have been a mainstay of chemists' thinking about
molecular structure, polarizability, and reactivity for over a century. This utility has motivated …

Approximations of the Iterative Stockholder Analysis scheme using exponential basis functions

YX Cheng, B Stamm - arxiv preprint arxiv:2412.05079, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this work, we introduce several approximations of the Iterative Stockholder Analysis (ISA)
method based on exponential basis functions. These approximations are categorized into …

Charge–Dipole Attraction as a Surface Interaction between Water Droplets Immersed in Organic Phases

H Afsaneh, JAW Elliott - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
The dynamic behavior of emulsion droplets during their interactions with one another or with
solid surfaces plays a paramount role in their ultimate stability in various applications. While …