... ADP023770. Title : ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Molten Ni-Based Superalloys. Descriptive Note : Conference paper. ...
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... Title : Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Molten Ni-Based Superalloys. Descriptive Note : Conference paper (preprint). ...
... from federally funded research, testing and training ... for Research Development Test and Evaluation ... Title : Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations ...
... nightmares for traditional quantum chemical approaches for optimizing structures of such ... an unbiased manner with ab initio forces. ...
An ab initio centroid molecular dynamics (CMD) method is developed by combining the CMD method with the ab initio molecular orbital method. The ab initio CMD method is applied to vibrational dynamics of diatomic molecules, H2 and ...
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... eg, SiHl6= has a negative ionization potential. ... V. POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACES AND DYNAMICS ... initio with effective core potentials, ab initio ...
... Static polarizability and second hyperpolarizability tensors have also been computed for a series of polyenes, polyynes and cumulenes by ab initio ...
NMR chemical shifts for an L-alanine molecular crystal are calculated using ab initio plane wave density functional theory. Dynamical effects including anharmonicity may be included by averaging chemical shifts over an ensemble of structural configurations generated using molecular dynamics (MD). The time scales ...
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We have studied structural and dynamical properties of Mg2Sn by employing an ab-initio pseudopotential method and a linear response scheme, within the generalised gradient approximation. The calculated lattice constant, bulk modulus and pressure derivative of bulk modulus are in agreement with previous ab-initio calculations and ...
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control of molecular dynamics; grid methods in the solution of time-dependent problems in quantum mechanics; ab initio calculation of potential energy surfaces and vibronic...
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with molecular dynamic simulations in combination with high level correlated ab initio quantum chemical the existing minima in the PES. 2. Ab initio quantum-chemical calculations. The lowest energy minima (within surface analysis by metadynamics. Gibbs energies and populations obtained from ...
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We present results for the static and dynamic structural properties of undercooled liquid Si, at several temperatures between 1550 K and 1100 K, obtained through orbital-free ab-initio molecular dynamics simulations. The local bond angle distributions show a modest increase in the tetrahedral order upon decreasing the temperature. We ...
In this work, we present a study on water acetonitrile (AN) mixtures by molecular dynamics ab initio and X-ray diffraction techniques. Comparison of the experimental total G(r) functions of the mixtures with the results of molecular dynamics simulation shows an overall good agreement. The properties of hydrogen ...
materials, (iiii) phonon recycling in lasers, and (iv) phonon-assisted photon absorption in photovoltaics. The theoretical treatments include ab initio and molecular dynamic...
... It is urged that theorists turn their attention to ab-initio energy band ... change in the electric susceptibility with interatomic distance (piezo-optic) tensor ...
In this review we present the techniques of ab initio molecular dynamics simulation improved to its current stage where the analysis of existing processes and the prediction of further chemical features and real-world processes are feasible. For this reason we describe the relevant developments in ab ...
... For example, ab initio quantum chemical calculations when combined with reaction rate theory and kinetics modeling can, in principle, be capable ...
... 3. Ab initio calculations on ammonia, formamide, pyrrole and pyridine. ... The results given in Appendix II for formamide (HCONH2) are typical of the ...
., Montcourier, P., and Fort, P. (1998). RhoG GTPase controls a pathway that independently activates Rac1 and Cdc
... from federally funded research, testing and training ... and agencies for Research Development Test and Evaluation ... a good fit to the ab initio data. ...
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... At present experimental data for ternary Ni-Al-W alloys is not available, and estimates of the accuracy of the Mukai model for liquid density in this ...
... dependent densities in the multicomponent RENE-N4 superalloy, and estimates of the accuracy of the Mukai model for liquid density in this system ...
... derivatives (first and second) calculated by ab initio quantum chemical techniques (Maple, Dinur, and Hagler 1988; Hagler et al. ...
The high-pressure induced phase transformation from the zinc blende to rocksalt structure in SiC has been studied by the ab initio molecular dynamics method. The simulations showed that SiC passes through a tetragonal intermediate state before transforming to a monoclinic phase at 160�GPa. The mechanism for this phase transformation ...
A systematic method for approximating the ab initio electronic energy of crystal lattices has been improved by the incorporation of long range electrostatic and dispersion interactions. The effect of these long range interactions on the optimization of the crystal structure is reported. The harmonic lattice dynamics have been evaluated ...
Research completed during the period 1 Feb. 1990 - 28 Feb. 1994 is summarized in the following included papers: 'Ab Initio Statistical Mechanics of Structural Phase Transition'; 'Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics: Analytically Continued Energy Functionals and Insights into Iterative Solutions'; ...
We perform ab initio molecular dynamics simulations to study the dissociation of NaCl in water. The potential of mean force (PMF) between the two ions is determined using the constrained-force method. The simulation windows corresponding to the contact and solvent-separated minima, and the transition state in between, are further ...
... This study involves: Ab-initio crystal orbitals and polymer orbitals; Ab-initio coupled cluster program; Ab-initio quantum chemical calculations and ...
) to applied external force. We first investigate the mechanical response using an ab initio molecular dynamics where the reaction path depends on the strength and nature of the applied force. We first investigate the response of CB under applied forces using steered molecular dynamics8 (SMD) combined with ...
Electrical conductivity data of Al for the densities from normal to a fraction of normal density and temperatures up to a few thousand Kelvin are important inputs for the hydrodynamic simulations of exploding aluminium foils. We have generated conductivity data of aluminium, by using ab-initio molecular dynamics simulations and the Kubo Greenwood formula. ...
We present an ab initio quantum theory of the finite-temperature magnetism of iron and nickel. A recently developed technique which combines dynamical mean-field theory with realistic electronic structure methods successfully describes the many-body features of the one electron spectra and the observed magnetic moments below and above ...
The recombination dynamics for the SiH2 +SiH2 = SiH2 reaction are studied by quasiclassical trajectory methods using a global potential-energy surface fitted to the available experimental data and the results of various ab initio calculations. The potenti...
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Based on ab initio pseudopotential calculations, the results of investigations of the lattice dynamics of silver halides AgHal (Hal = Cl, Br, I) are presented. Equilibrium lattice parameters, phonon spectra, frequency densities and effective atomic-charge values are obtained for all types of crystals under study.
and O�H bond length for a simple water molecule and for water in contact with NaCl surfaces. The resultsAB INITIO MOLECULAR�DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS OF ADSORPTION OF DYE MOLECULES AT SURFACES M. SUGIHARA, H molecules on the NaCl(100) surface. The investigations concentrate on the flat dye molecules trimethin, [C
The content of an ab-initio time-dependent theory of quantum molecular dynamics of electrons and atomic nuclei is presented. Employing the time-dependent variational principle and a family of approximate state vectors yields a set of dynamical equations a...
An approach is developed to enhance sampling for ab initio Monte Carlo and ab initio path integral Monte Carlo calculations of molecular clusters by utilizing an approximate potential as a guide to move in the configuration space more efficiently. The interpolated potential energy obtained by the moving ...
... Title : Chalcopyrite Magnetic Semiconductors: An Ab-Initio Study of Their Structural, Electronic and Magnetic Properties. ...
... from federally funded research, testing and training ... for Research Development Test and Evaluation ... COMPENDIUM OF AB INITIO CALCULATIONS ...
... Accession Number : ADA219907. Title : An Ab Initio Study of the Geometry and Rotational Barrier of 4- Phenylimidazole. ...
... from federally funded research, testing and training ... and agencies for Research Development Test and Evaluation ... Title : Ab Initio Calculations of the ...
... Title : Ab Initio Calculation of Vibrational Absorption and Circular Dichroism Spectra Using Density Functional Force Fields. ...
... Title : AB Initio Quantum Chemical Investigations of Solubilities in Supercritical Solutions. Descriptive Note : Conference Paper,. ...
We present a microscopic model of the interaction and adsorption mechanism of simple organic molecules on SiC surfaces as obtained from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. Our results open the way to functionalization of silicon carbide, a leading candidate material for bio-compatible devices.
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,3 While much is known about the properties of the low energy NaCl(001) surface and water covered NaCl(001 the properties of ambient liquid water films remains a challenge for both experiment and first the properties of the hitherto mysterious nanoscale water film that covers NaCl(001). From our ab initio
We present a formulation of ab initio electronic structure calculations in a finite magnetic field, which retains the simplicity and efficiency of techniques widely used in first principles molecular dynamics simulations, based on plane-wave basis sets and Fourier transforms. In addition we discuss results obtained with this method for ...
Ab initio molecular dynamics is used to compute the thermal conductivity of hydrogen at 80 g cm{sup -3} and temperature up to 800 eV. Pressures and ionic structure are compared with orbital-free calculations. Thermal conductivity is evaluated using the Kubo-Greenwood formula and is compared with models currently used in hydrodynamical ...
scaling DFT code (see Peter Haynes) Other codes used in TCM for applications ffl CPMD � DFT ab initio? (MT/RN) ffl non�collinear spins in QMC (MT) ffl Pseudopotentials for many�body calculations (Lee, Mostofi, Di'eguez) Applications etc..(CASTEP, CPMD) ffl ab initio molecular dynamics ...
The recent literature on the determination of minimum energy conformations by ab initio quantum mechanical techniques is reviewed. The availability of computer-coded analytical first and second derivatives of the Hartree-Fock energy makes possible calculations that will be of significant assistance in structure determination of molecules. A short review of ...
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Dynamical calculations are performed on an ab initio potential energy surface for KCN. Approximate variational solutions of the vibrational Eckart hamiltonian are presented for several states. Fundamental vibrations are found to lie at 302�7 cm-1 and 119�7 cm-1. An effective rotational hamiltonian is solved for several vibrational ...
The unimolecular dissociation dynamics of disilane are investigated using classical trajectory methods with a global potential-energy surface fitted to the available experimental data and the results of various ab initio calculations. The potential surfac...
Inelastic neutron scattering, density functional theory, ab initio molecular dynamics, and classical molecular dynamics were used to examine the behavior of nanoconfined water in palygorskite and sepiolite. These complementary methods provide a strong bas...
This report briefly summarizes the research developments in ab initio dynamics made possible by this augmentation award to the parent ONR grant. A full description of the research accomplishments will appear in the final technical report of the parent gra...
Dynamics of the O( ) + HCl reaction on the electronic state: A new ab initio potential energy for the lowest electronic state of the O( ) + HCl system is presented. This surface is based on electronic the reactants O( ) + HCl() to the products OH() + Cl( ). The reaction barrier on this surface lies at an O
With the development of ab-initio molecular dynamics method, it has now become possible to study the static and dynamical properties of clusters containing up to a few tens of atoms. Here I present a review of the method within the framework of the densit...
An ab initio molecular dynamics (MD) simulation technique employing the Born-Oppenheimer approach in the framework of a Gaussian implementation of Kohn-Sham density functional theory is used to study the gas-phase conformational dynamics of an alanine dipeptide analog. It is found that conformational transformation ...
A biased potential molecular dynamics simulation approach, accelerated molecular dynamics (AMD), has been implemented in the framework of ab initio molecular dynamics for the study of chemical reactions. Using two examples, the double proton transfer reaction in formic acid dimer and the ...
The methodology of ab initio molecular dynamics, wherein finite-temperature dynamical trajectories are generated by using forces computed "on the fly" from electronic structure calculations, has had a profound influence in modern theoretical research. Ab initio molecular ...
The methodology of ab initio molecular dynamics, wherein finite-temperature dynamical trajectories are generated by using forces computed �on the fly� from electronic structure calculations, has had a profound influence in modern theoretical research. Ab initio ...
A comprehensive study of static, dynamic and electronic properties of liquid Al in a thermodynamic state near its triple point was performed by means of 205-particle ab initio molecular dynamics simulations using Kohn-Sham density-functional theory and the Langevin equation of motion. The good agreement of the ...
Structural and spectroscopic properties of hydrazine, H(2)N-NH(2), it being a floppy or fluxional molecule in a vacuum, are investigated by means of ab initio molecular dynamics, ab initio path integral molecular dynamics, and ab ...
... Title : AB Initio Study of the Electronic Magnetic Circular Dichroism ... functions are determined using as initio quantum chemical techniques including ...
For the equilibrium immiscible Fe-Cu system, ab initio calculations using the projector augmented wave method identify the relatively stable structures of the metastable Fe25Cu75 and Fe50Cu50 alloys to be both of fcc and determine their corresponding lattice constants and cohesive energies. Some of the ab initio ...
Structure and dynamics of HeI2 van der Waals (vdW) complex are analyzed from first principles. Ab initio technology, at CCSD(T) and MRCI level of theories, was employed for constructing potential energy surfaces of the ground and excited electronic states, and a full quantum mechanical treatment for studying its ...
Cubic zirconia exhibits a soft phonon mode (X2-) which becomes dynamically unstable at low temperatures. Previous ab initio investigations into the temperature-induced stabilization of the soft mode treated it as an independent anharmonic oscillator. Calculations presented here, using the self-consistent ab ...
Due to recent advances in methods and computers, the accuracy of ab calculations has reached a point
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Mass tensor molecular dynamics method was first introduced by Bennett [J. Comput. Phys. 19, 267 (1975)] for efficient sampling of phase space through the use of generalized atomic masses. Here, we show how to apply this method to ab initio molecular dynamics simulations with minimal computational overhead. Test ...
We present a direct ab initio dynamics study on the kinetics of the hydrogen exchange of methane with a zeolite model. Dynamical calculations are based on the canonical variational transition state theory plus multidimensional semiclassical tunneling corrections. The reaction path information needed for rate ...
The protonation scheme and the hydrogen bond connectivity in the structure of jennite were investigated by ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. The calculated statistics of hydrogen bonds at ambient conditions is consistent with the protonation scheme proposed by Bonaccorsi et al. (2004) based on the bond valence theory. The ...
We introduce an ab initio molecular-dynamics method based on the discretized path-integral representation of quantum particles. Fermi statistics is automatically generated by an effective exchange potential. This path-integral molecular-dynamics method is able to simulate electron plasmas at the border of the ...
The relaxation of hot hydrogen atoms upon the dissociative adsorption of H2 on Pd(100) was studied by ab initio molecular dynamics simulations based on density functional theory, modeling the full dissociative adsorption process in a consistent manner. In spite of the nonlinear dependence of every single trajectory on the run ...
-wave /pseudopotential codes [2,5�7]. Parallelization of the CPMD code was done on different levels. The central-initio Molecular Dynamics: Reaching Teraflop Performance with the CPMD Code J�urg Hutter Physical Chemistry-level Parallelism for ab-initio Molecular Dynamics: Reaching Teraflop Performance with the ...
We have calculated the melting temperature of tungsten by two ab initio approaches. The first approach can be divided into two steps. In the first step, we simulate a large coexisting solid and liquid system by the classical embedded-atom method potential and obtain an approximate melting temperature. In the second step, we compute the accurate melting ...
The nature of intermolecular interactions between aromatic amino acid residues has been investigated by a combination of molecular dynamics and ab initio methods. The potential energy surface of various interacting pairs, including tryptophan, phenilalanine, and tyrosine, was scanned for determining all the relevant local minima by a ...
Owing to their small mass, hydrogen atoms exhibit strong quantum behavior even at room temperature. Including these effects in first-principles calculations is challenging because of the huge computational effort required by conventional techniques. Here we present the first ab initio application of a recently developed stochastic scheme, which allows to ...
Recent progress in the ab-initio molecular dynamics method and the power of parallel computing, allow the detailed study of complex chemical reaction of great industrial relevance. We illustrate this unprecedented capability by investigating the second generation Ziegler-Natta catalytic process. In this inhomogeneous catalyst, a polymerization reaction is ...
We build an "all-electron" norm-conserving pseudopotential for boron which extends the use of ab initio molecular dynamics simulations up to 50 times the normal density rho0. This allows us to perform ab initio simulations of dense plasmas from the regime where quantum mechanical effects are ...
We build an 'all-electron' norm-conserving pseudopotential for boron which extends the use of ab initio molecular dynamics simulations up to 50 times the normal density {rho}{sub 0}. This allows us to perform ab initio simulations of dense plasmas from the regime where quantum ...
The high-pressure induced phase transformation from the zinc blende to rocksalt structure in SiC has been studied by ab initio molecular dynamics. The simulations show that SiC passes through tetragonal and then monoclinic intermediate states before finally forming the rock salt structure at 160 GPa. The mechanism for this phase ...
We report herein a series of ab initio simulations of water under both static and shocked conditions. We have calculated the coherent x-ray scattering intensity of several phases of water under high pressure, using ab initio Density Functional Theory (DFT). We provide new atomic scattering form factors for water at ...
The framework of ab initio density-functional theory (DFT) has been introduced as a way to provide a seamless connection between the Kohn-Sham (KS) formulation of DFT and wave-function based ab initio approaches [R. J. Bartlett, I. Grabowski, S. Hirata, and S. Ivanov, J. Chem. Phys. 122, 034104 (2005)]. Recently, ...
... The work presented here makes use of state-of- validated mathematical criteria for predicting the-art AIMD simulations as a means for testing the ...
The dynamics of the formation and dissociation of Si3 complexes in atom-dimer collisions have been investigated using quasiclassical trajectories on a potential-energy surface that is a global fit to the available experimental data and ab initio CI and MP...
This bibliography lists the following reports: Optimized pseudopotentials, Ab-initio materials science and engineering using the molecular dynamics methods for total energy pseudopotential calculations, Oxygen complexes in Si, The enchanting properties of...
Rich reactive resonances are found in a 3D quantum dynamics study of the N + N2 exchange reaction using a recently developed ab initio potential energy surface. This surface is characterized by a feature in the interaction region called Lake Eyring , that...
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Ab initio, the point reactor kinetics has been derivd systematically with an assumption of separation of neutron number density, into a shape-function and a time-function. The understanding of the actual approach of the phenomena is aimed at by a systemat...
We present a combined experimental and theoretical study on carbon nanodiamonds using Raman and DAC experimentation and ab initio calculations. Our calculations confirm the surface reconstruction to a fullerene-like structure, and indicate compression of ...
The structure and energetics of free radicals, ions, and clusters have been investigated by photoelectron photoion coincidence (PEPICO) and analyzed with the aid of ab initio molecular orbital and statistical theory (RRKM) calculations. The two major them...
The structure and energetics of free radicals, ions, and clusters have been investigated by photoelectron photoion coincidence (PEPICO) and analyzed with ab initio molecular orbital and statistical theory RRKM calculations. In these experiments, molecules...
This final report describes the initial two phases of the overall project. In the first phase, accurate barriers and energetics were calculated for 7 reactions involved in O(3P) oxidation of hydrocarbons. This was done by MRCI/CASSCF ab initio calculation...
The fundamental nature of the research was exemplified by ab-initio predictions of the friction coefficient of single crystal diamond sliding against its mating diamond plane, and molecular dynamics calculations on single crystal calcium fluoride and bari...
The theoretical principles underpinning the calculation of infrared spectra for condensed-phase systems in the context of ab initio molecular dynamics have been recently developed in literature. At present, most ab initio molecular dynamics calculations are restricted to ...
The predicted high pressure superionic phases of water and HF are investigated via ab initio molecular dynamics. These phases could potentially be achieved through either static compression with heating or through shock compression. We study water at dens...
Atom-centered partial charges are calculated for the Fe-heme in cytochrome P450cam for use in molecular dynamics simulations of polar substrates bound in the active site of the enzyme. Charges are fit to the electrostatic potential produced by ab initio U...
�O liquids11,12 . The calcula- tions were done using the software package VASP24 , which is exceptionally ef
The fully ionized (metallic) hydrogen plasma is studied by [ital ab] [ital initio] molecular dynamics simulations, for classical protons and fully degenerate electrons, in the strong coupling regime of the protons. The calculated ion-electron pair distribution function signals the breakdown of linear screening with decreasing density ...
Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of a recently proposed cobalt-based catalyst for water oxidation provide insight into the properties of protons at the water/oxide interface. Calculations and X-ray absorption spectroscopy data indicate a cubane-like structure of the catalyst, support the occurrence of protonated ?(2)-O atoms, ...
The quantum dynamics of the rotational quenching of the Mg24H+(X1?+) molecular cation interacting with He4(1S) as a buffer gas, at relative temperatures ranging from 1 K down to millikelvins, is described by accurate close coupling scattering calculations on an ab initio potential energy surface. The efficiency of the process is ...
Density functional theory based ab initio molecular dynamics simulations with explicit inclusion of empirical van der Waals (vdW) corrections of supercritical carbon dioxide have been performed. Significant changes in the intermolecular pair correlation functions of the fluid modeled with the added vdW interactions are observed, ...
The decomposition of ethylene carbonate (EC) during the initial growth of solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) films at the solvent-graphitic anode interface is critical to lithium ion battery operations. Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of explicit liquid EC/graphite interfaces are conducted to study these electrochemical ...
High-pressure induced zinc blende to rocksalt phase transition in GaN has been investigated by ab initio molecular dynamics method to characterize the transformation mechanism at the atomic level. It was shown that at 100 GPa GaN passes through tetragonal and monoclinic states before rocksalt structure is formed. The transformation ...
Ab initio theoretical investigations of the dynamics and thermodynamics of a compressed Ne crystal performed using a model that explicitly takes account of the deformation of the electronic shells in the dipole approximation are presented. A dynamical matrix based on a non-empirical short-range repulsive potential ...
We have developed an ab initio path integral molecular dynamics method based on the fragment molecular orbital method. This �FMO-PIMD� method can treat both nuclei and electrons quantum mechanically, and is useful to simulate large hydrogen-bonded systems with high accuracy. After a benchmark calculation for water monomer, water ...
The interaction of hydrogen with palladium surfaces represents a model system for the study of the adsorption and absorption at metal surfaces. Theoretical gas-surface dynamics studies have usually concentrated on the adsorption dynamics on clean surfaces. Only recently has it become possible, based on advances in electronic structure codes and ...
A multiscale technique is developed that couples empirical molecular dynamics (MD) and ab�initio density functional theory (DFT). An overlap handshaking region between the empirical MD and ab�initio DFT regions is formulated and the interaction forces between the carbon atoms are calculated based on the second-generation reactive ...
Born-Oppenheimer ab initio QM/MM molecular dynamics simulation with umbrella sampling is a state-of-the-art approach to calculate free energy profiles of chemical reactions in complex systems. To further improve its computational efficiency, a mass-scaling method with the increased time step in MD simulations has been explored and ...
In this work we show how the ab initio determination of van der Waals coefficients within time-dependent density functional theory can be used to build efficient and accurate atomistic models that describe the long-range interactions of proteins with other proteins and of proteins with semi-conducting surfaces. The model parameters are fitted so that they ...
