... Abstract : Results are presented from ab initio quantum chemical calculations on the ground state potential energy surface for the open shell ...
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... Results of this study substantiate findings from an earlier quantum chemical study using a lower ... for (I) and (II) based on the earlier ab initio study. ...
Ab initio electronic structure methods can supplement CALPHAD in two major ways for subsequent applications to stability in complex alloys. The first one is rather immediate and concerns the direct input of ab initio energetics in CALPHAD databases. The other way, more involved, is the assessment of ...
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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 HF. For the H2 molecule, the temperature ...
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The predissociation line broadening in the Schumann-Runge bands of O2 is explained by an ab initio calculation of the pertinent repulsive potential energy curves and spin-orbit matrix elements. The ab initio results provide an overall qualitative picture ...
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The number of ab initio molecular electronic calculations has increased dramatically in the last few years. Both the practitioners and other interested students of the results of the calculations have found it increasingly difficult to determine the prese...
The results of an ab initio determination of the rate of constant for H+H/sub 2/CO are presented. (AIP)
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We present an algorithm for calculating the conformational thermodynamics of large, flexible molecules that combines ab initio electronic structure theory calculations with a torsional path integral Monte Carlo (TPIMC) simulation. The new algorithm overcomes the previous limitations of the TPIMC method by including the thermodynamic contributions of ...
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 available experimental ...
... This study involves: Ab-initio crystal orbitals and polymer orbitals; Ab-initio coupled cluster program; Ab-initio quantum chemical calculations and ...
... Abstract : The results of ab initio calculations based on the density-functional method and using the norm-conserving pseudopotentials for the ...
quantum chemical method rather than an ab initio one. Although the approximate nature of semiempirical results must be stressed, such methods are reliable ...
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The results of an ab initio calculation of the potential energy surface governing atomic hydrogen recombination in the presence of helium atoms are presented. (auth)
Results are reported from SDCI and CPF ab initio computations for the ground and low-lying states of
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... 3. Ab initio calculations on ammonia, formamide, pyrrole and pyridine. ... The results given in Appendix II for formamide (HCONH2) are typical of the ...
... phosphorus species have not been previously determined and were estimated from the results of ab initio quantum chemical calculations available ...
An analysis is presented of the results of earlier ab initio computational studies of cyclobutadiene, cyclooctatetraene and 1,4-dihydropyrazine. The first and third of these are normally categorized as antiaromatic. All three molecules are polyenes, even ...
Using experimental polarizability matrix elements of CO2 and ab initio results in the literature for the quadrupole transition matrix elements for O2, ...
piezoelectric parts. The spontaneous part is modeled with an ab initio result of a theoretical calculation, while the piezoelectric ...
... generally applicable procedure for carrying out ab initio calculations employing ... were also made in describing quantum-chemical results obtained ...
... atoms and molecule in order to avoid possible loss of molecules during photoassociation. The result of our investigation is shown in Fig. ...
... The results are in perfect qualitative and good quantitative agreement with existing experimental VCD spectra except in the CH stretching region of ...
In this work we discuss the summation of the Parquet class of diagrams within Green�s function theory as a possible framework for ab initio nuclear structure calculations. The theory is presented and some numerical details are discussed, in particular the approximations employed. We apply the Parquet method to a simple model, and compare our ...
Through the use of a molecular pseudopotential method, we determine the a approximate magnitudes of errors that result when electron affinity determinations of polar negative ions are made through ab initio calculations in which the use of a given basis set yields inappropriate values for permanent and induced dipole moments of the ...
... 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 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 also analyze the ...
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 analyzed to determine the ...
The lowest two ab initio potential energy surfaces (PES), and the corresponding nonadiabatic couplings between them, have been obtained for the H{sub 3}{sup +} system; the molecular data are compared to those calculated with the diatomic in molecules (DIM) method. The form of the couplings is discussed in terms of the topology of the molecular structure of ...
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 bonded clusters (water ...
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 to give phonon ...
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Ab initio calculations of off-diagonal hyperfine interaction in cesium A. Derevianko, M. S interaction mixing amplitude Mhf for the 6s-7s transition in atomic cesium. The ab initio result Mhf 0 lev- els F and F of 6s and 7s states in cesium can be repre- sented as AM1 M F F Mhf . The first term
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... Ab-initia calculati'r."! using a 6-31G(d) basis set confirm the semiempirical results for the f-,toride and chloride systems. BEST AVAILBLE COPY 14. ...
Quantum mechanical-based (or ab initio) methods are used to predict the stability properties of materials although their application is limited to relatively simple systems in terms of structures and number of alloy components. However thermodynamics of complex multi-component alloys requires a more versatile approach afforded within the CALPHAD formalism. ...
The methodology of nonempirical ab initio quantum mechanical calculations is reviewed as applied to the field of mineral surface chemistry and water-rock geochemical kinetics. The ab initio treatment of adsorption deals with the covalent forces between surface atoms and molecules either in solution or in the gas ...
... Title : AB Initio Study of the Electronic Magnetic Circular Dichroism ... functions are determined using as initio quantum chemical techniques including ...
The rotational mechanism of the NH{sub 4}{sup +} ion in water is analyzed by using both semiempirical (AM1) and ab initio (6-31G* SCF level) methods. AM1 predicts rapid rotation at any degree of first solvent shell hydration from n = 1-6. These results are considered artifactual since AM1 favors ion-water structures of a type not found ...
The interaction of CO{sub 2} and water is investigated by a combination of ab initio and SOLDRI-MM2 techniques. Ab initio results at levels of theory as high as MP2/6-311+G**//6-31G** are found to be in reasonable agreement with experiment. The R.{theta} potential energy surfaces generated for ...
Multiconfiguration relativistic Dirac-Fock calculations of KLL Auger energies are reported for neon, argon, uranium, and americium. These selected examples demonstrate the feasibility of this method to calculate completely ab initio, in intermediate coupling, Auger transition energies with a precision of a few eV. Comparison of our ...
. The previous ab initio results on lattices of K atoms for coordination numbers z 8, 4, and 2 are analyzed these DFT results for K into contact with a simple and physically appealing quantum-chemical model proposed conclusions are given at the end of the paper. II. THEORETICAL METHOD We have performed the ...
We report the results of a large-scale ab initio simulation of an intergranular glassy film (IGF) model in ?-Si3N4. It is shown that the stress-strain behavior under uniaxial load in the model with prismatic surfaces and few defective bonds is very different from an earlier IGF model with basal planes. The results ...
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. ABINIT code has been ...
Results of ab initio molecular orbital calculations are reported for complexes of eleven anions with a water molecule. Optimized geometries obtained with the 6-31G(d) basis set were used in calculations including diffuse functions and the correlation energy. The present structural and energetic results complement ...
We have performed ab initio calculations of positron distribution, ACAR and lifetime in the quasi-one-dimensional organic conductor TTF-TCNQ. The electronic structure is obtained within the LDA, while the positron state is calculated either with the LDA or with the GGA. Except the positron lifetime, differences between the LDA and GGA ...
Due to recent advances in methods and computers, the accuracy of ab calculations has reached a point
Both ab initio MO--LCAO--SCF and the electron-gas (or Gordon--Kim) methods have been used to compute the intermolecular potential (Phi) of N/sub 2/ molecules for seven different N/sub 2/--N/sub 2/ orientations. The ab initio calculations were carried out using a (4s3p) contracted Gaussian basis set with and without ...
We compare calculations of infrared (IR) spectra of water confined between non polar surfaces, carried out using ab initio and classical simulations. Ab-initio results show important differences between IR spectra and vibrational density of state, unlike classical simulations. These differences originate from ...
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.
The results of ab initio multi-configuration self-consistent field (MSCF) calculations on 1,2-cyclohexadiene are reported. These calculations support the contention that the compound's equilibrium geometry is strongly bent and chiral but can easily racemize. Structures are proposed for the ground state, diradical, and ...
Ab initio molecular orbital theory has been used to examine the kinetics and mechanism for the reaction of chlorine atoms with methyl formate. From the ab initio parameters, the room-temperature rate constant is calculated and found to be in reasonable agreement with the experimental determination. It is found that ...
Ab-initio study of zone centre phonons in rare-earth hexaborides, MB6, has been made using self-consistent density functional method based on norm-conserving pseudo-potentials and numerical atomic orbitals as basis set. Calculated values of zone centre phonons are in fair agreement with the experimental results.
The effects of electron-hole interaction on the optical properties of a variety of materials have been calculated using an ab initio method based on solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation. Results on selected semiconductors, insulators, and semiconducting polymers are presented. In the cases of alpha-quartz (SiO2) and ...
Results of ab initio Hartree-Fock calculations are presented for the nine-coordination-shell cluster Be{sub 69}. Binding energy, ionization potential, electrical field gradient, nuclear-electrostatic potential, diamagnetic shielding constant, second moments of charge, and Mulliken populations are reported for several electronic states. ...
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.
Results are presented from ab initio quantum chemical calculations on the ground state potential energy surface for the open shell doublet reaction: HNO + NO right arrow N2O + OH. (I) This reaction is thought to be Important in the sustained combustion of...
The ab initio no-core shell model (NCSM) is extended to include a realistic three-body interaction in calculations for p-shell nuclei. They present results of first applications using the Argonne V8' nucleon-nucleon (NN) potential and the Tucson-Melbourne...
The ab initio calculation of harmonic force fields using post-self-consistent (post-SCF) methods has recently increased greatly in efficiency. As a result, accurate post-SCF harmonic force fields are now achievable for experimentally accessible chiral mol...
An ab initio theory of stimulated rotational Raman scattering is presented which takes into account pump and population depletion, degeneracy effects, multirotational lines, polarization effects, and multiphoton processes. The theory is applied to the case of diatomic molecules. Small signal gain results obtained for N2 are found to ...
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...
We use ab initio crystalline calculations to explore the role of iodine in determining the properties of 1,4-diiodobenzene. The results strongly suggest that the large halogen is an important or perhaps the dominant determinant of the ability of diiodobenzene to transport holes. We conjecture that the high mobility of diiodobenzene is ...
High level ab initio calculations have been carried out on the C-13 - C-12 kinetic isotope effect of the CH4 + OH reaction in the atmosphere. The results agree quite well with both the absolute value of the isotope effect and the temperature dependence of the effect, based on new experimental data. The calculated kinetic isotope effect ...
The ab initio calculation of electronic energies for numerous configurations of HCO and HOC, and a novel method for fitting the energies to a global surface are reported. This surface is used to calculate all the bound vibrational states of nonrotating HCO and DCO using the Watson Hamiltonian. Some quasibound vibrational states are also reported for ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
An accurate and efficient molecular alignment technique is presented based on first principle electronic structure calculations. This new scheme maximizes quantum similarity matrices in the relative orientation of the molecules and uses Fourier transform techniques for two purposes. First, building up the numerical representation of true ab initio ...
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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 ...
Almost all the ab inito studies performed so far for various (possible) Earth's inner core materials were conducted by comparing together the computed longitudinal (Vp) and shear (Vs) wave velocities to the first- order velocity term of seismological models. We here demonstrate that further constraints on the Earth's inner core composition can be provided if first-principles ...
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, ...
Point defects in Fe and dilute FeCu alloys are investigated by ab initio calculations based on density functional theory. The relaxed vacancy and interstitial and substitutional Cu atom formation energies are determined as well as some migration energies. The binding energies of various Cu containing defects believed to play an important role in the ...
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... ADP012740 TITLE: Ab Initio Study on Spin Polarization of III-V Compound Tips ... Ab initio study on spin polarization of III-V compound tips ...
Ab initio electronic structure methods can supplement CALPHAD in two major ways for subsequent applications to stability in complex alloys. The first one is rather immediate and concerns the direct input of ab initio energetics in CALPHAD databases. The o...
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We present a combined computational and experimental study on structural and electric properties of recently synthesized heteroaromatic dyes and their simple aggregates. Ab initio and density functional theory calculations are carried out to investigate ground state and excited state properties along with their modulation induced by the solvent described ...
We present the result of ab initio modeling of the Ge(111)-(2 � 1) surface electronic structure in the presence of donor doping atom at certain position in the surface bilayer of (2 � 1) reconstruction. We briefly compare these results with the data of experimental low temperature STM investigations. ...
In this article, we investigate the dependence of interatomic Coulombic decay widths on the symmetry of the decaying state. In this type of decay, excited, ionized, and doubly ionized states of an atom or molecule can efficiently relax by ionizing their environment. We concentrate on an atom A and a neighboring atom B and consider such excited, ionized, or doubly ionized states of A that decay by ...
Results from several commonly used approximate methods of evaluating electrostatic interactions have been compared to the rigorous, nonexpanded electrostatic energies at both uncorrelated and correlated levels of theory. We examined a number of energy profiles for both hydrogen bonded and stacked configurations of the nucleic acid base pairs. We found that the penetration ...
The results of ab initio calculations of the vibronically averaged components of the anisotropic magnetic hyperfine tensor in the low-lying vibronic species of the X2? electronic state of the HCCS radical are reported. The electronically averaged hyperfine coupling constants for hydrogen, deuterium, 13C and 33S are obtained as ...
In this paper, we summarize some results of our ab initio simulations aimed at investigating the mechanism of the NC-AFM image contrast on semiconductor and metallic surfaces. We start with an introduction into the basic ideas behind the ab initio simulation process of the NC-AFM experimental ...
We have carried out self-consistent reaction field (SCRF) calculations on the bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) and bacteriopheophytin (BPh) molecules at the Hartree-Fock level using the ab initio electronic structure code PSGVB together with an accurate numerical Poisson-Boltzmann solver. These are by far the largest ab ...
... ADP023770. Title : ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Molten Ni-Based Superalloys. Descriptive Note : Conference paper. ...
... Ab initio Energies Calculated Using 3 ... of the Transition States (TS ... Descriptors : *TRANSITIONS, *MOLECULES, COMPUTATIONS, COMPARISON ...
... Title : Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Molten Ni-Based Superalloys. Descriptive Note : Conference paper (preprint). ...
... Accession Number : ADA351780. Title : Ab Initio and DFT Potential Energy Surfaces for Cyanuric Chloride Reactions. Descriptive Note : Final rept. ...
... Ab initio study on atomic structures and physical properties of CdSe quantum nanodots ... Figure 2. Diagram of covered nanodots. ...
... Title : Ab Initio Study on Atomic Structures and Physical Properties of CdSe Quantum Nanodots. Descriptive Note : Final rept. ...
... Accession Number : ADA270577. Title : Ab Initio Potential Energy Surface for the H + OCS Reaction. Descriptive Note : Final rept. ...
... Ab initio direct trajectory simulation on hydrogen atom transfer in 7-azaindole in the electronic excited state with assist of water molecules ...
