{"title":"Macrotransport of active particles in periodic channels and fields: Rectification and dispersion.","authors":"Zhiwei Peng","doi":"10.1063/5.0232614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0232614","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transport and dispersion of active particles in structured environments, such as corrugated channels and porous media, are important for the understanding of both natural and engineered active systems. Owing to their continuous self-propulsion, active particles exhibit rectified transport under spatially asymmetric confinement. While progress has been made in experiments and particle-based simulations, a theoretical understanding of the effective long-time transport dynamics in spatially periodic geometries remains less developed. In this paper, we apply generalized Taylor dispersion theory to analyze the long-time effective transport dynamics of active Brownian particles (ABPs) in periodic channels and fields. We show that the long-time transport behavior is governed by an effective advection-diffusion equation. The derived macrotransport equations allow us to characterize the average drift and effective dispersion coefficient. For the case of ABPs subject to a no-flux boundary condition at the channel wall, we show that regardless of activity, the average drift is given by the net diffusive flux along the channel. For ABPs, their activity is the driving mechanism that sustains a density gradient, which ultimately leads to rectified motion along the channel. Our continuum theory is validated against direct Brownian dynamics simulations of the Langevin equations governing the motion of each ABP.</p>","PeriodicalId":15313,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chemical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142466480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"All-electron first-principles GWΓ simulations for accurately predicting core-electron binding energies considering first-order three-point vertex corrections.","authors":"Kenta Yoneyama, Yoshifumi Noguchi, Kaoru Ohno","doi":"10.1063/5.0227580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0227580","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the conventional GW method, the three-point vertex function (Γ) is approximated to unity (Γ ∼ 1). Here, we developed an all-electron first-principles GWΓ method beyond a conventional GW method by considering a first-order three-point vertex function (Γ(1) = 1 + iGGW) in a one-electron self-energy operator. We applied the GWΓ method to simulate the binding energies (BEs) of B1s, C1s, N1s, O1s, and F1s for 19 small-sized molecules. Contrary to the one-shot GW method [or G0W0(LDA)], which underestimates the experimentally determined absolute BEs by about 3.7 eV for B1s, 5.1 eV for C1s, 6.9 eV for N1s, 7.8 eV for O1s, and 5.8 eV for F1s, the GWΓ method successfully reduces these errors by approximately 1-2 eV for all the elements studied here. Notably, the first-order three-point vertex corrections are more significant for heavier elements, following the order of F > O > N > C > B1s. Finally, the computational cost analysis revealed that one term in the GWΓ one-electron self-energy operator, despite being computationally intensive, contributes negligibly (<0.1 eV) to the C1s, N1s, O1s, and F1s.</p>","PeriodicalId":15313,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chemical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142466452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of current collector on the coupled electro-chemo-mechanical performance of graphite electrodes in LiBs.","authors":"Xiaolin Li, Jiahui Liu, Honghui Gu, Hainan Jiang, Linlin Song, Yaolong He, Dawei Li","doi":"10.1063/5.0233210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0233210","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current collector, one of the main components in the manufacture of composite electrodes, is mainly used to enhance the mechanical stability and improve the performance and cycle performance of the electrodes. During the electrochemical reaction, the lithium diffusion can induce compressive stress and affect the mechanical performance, lifespan, and performance of batteries. Therefore, this study analyzed the influence of copper foil on the mechanical response and degradation performance of electrodes. In addition, a mathematical model was developed to analyze the effect of copper foil on the stress-strain behavior of the electrodes. The results indicated that the stress and modulus of the graphite electrodes have a non-linear increase with the lithiation process. Based on those findings, utilizing a thinner and more compliant current collector could effectively mitigate the in-plane strain and the stress within electrodes. Thus, developing a thinner and softer copper foil could simultaneously enhance the mechanical properties and specific density of composite electrodes for the next-generation LiBs.</p>","PeriodicalId":15313,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chemical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142466460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Grassmann time-evolving matrix product operators: An efficient numerical approach for fermionic path integral simulations.","authors":"Xiansong Xu, Chu Guo, Ruofan Chen","doi":"10.1063/5.0226167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0226167","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Developing numerical exact solvers for open quantum systems is a challenging task due to the non-perturbative and non-Markovian nature when coupling to structured environments. The Feynman-Vernon influence functional approach is a powerful analytical tool to study the dynamics of open quantum systems. Numerical treatments of the influence functional including the quasi-adiabatic propagator technique and the tensor-network-based time-evolving matrix product operator method have proven to be efficient in studying open quantum systems with bosonic environments. However, the numerical implementation of the fermionic path integral suffers from the Grassmann algebra involved. In this work, we present a detailed introduction to the Grassmann time-evolving matrix product operator method for fermionic open quantum systems. In particular, we introduce the concepts of Grassmann tensor, signed matrix product operator, and Grassmann matrix product state to handle the Grassmann path integral. Using the single-orbital Anderson impurity model as an example, we review the numerical benchmarks for structured fermionic environments for real-time nonequilibrium dynamics, real-time and imaginary-time equilibration dynamics, and its application as an impurity solver. These benchmarks show that our method is a robust and promising numerical approach to study strong coupling physics and non-Markovian dynamics. It can also serve as an alternative impurity solver to study strongly correlated quantum matter with dynamical mean-field theory.</p>","PeriodicalId":15313,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chemical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142466472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prospects for rank-reduced CCSD(T) in the context of high-accuracy thermochemistry.","authors":"Tingting Zhao, James H Thorpe, Devin A Matthews","doi":"10.1063/5.0230899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0230899","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Obtaining sub-chemical accuracy (1 kJ mol-1) for reaction energies of medium-sized gas-phase molecules is a longstanding challenge in the field of thermochemical modeling. The perturbative triples correction to coupled-cluster single double triple [CCSD(T)] constitutes an important component of all high-accuracy composite model chemistries that obtain this accuracy but can be a roadblock in the calculation of medium to large systems due to its O(N7) scaling, particularly in HEAT-like model chemistries that eschew separation of core and valence correlation. This study extends the work of Lesiuk [J. Chem. Phys. 156, 064103 (2022)] with new approximate methods and assesses the accuracy of five different approximations of (T) in the context of a subset of molecules selected from the W4-17 dataset. It is demonstrated that all of these approximate methods can achieve sub-0.1 kJ mol-1 accuracy with respect to canonical, density-fitted (T) contributions with a modest number of projectors. The approximation labeled Z̃T appears to offer the best trade-off between cost and accuracy and shows significant promise in an order-of-magnitude reduction in the computational cost of the CCSD(T) component of high-accuracy model chemistries.</p>","PeriodicalId":15313,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chemical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142466503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effective modeling of open quantum systems by low-rank discretization of structured environments.","authors":"Hideaki Takahashi, Raffaele Borrelli","doi":"10.1063/5.0232232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0232232","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The accurate description of the interaction of a quantum system with its environment is a challenging problem ubiquitous across all areas of physics and lies at the foundation of quantum mechanics theory. Here, we pioneer a new strategy to create discrete low-rank models of the system-environment interaction, by exploiting the frequency and time domain information encoded in the fluctuation-dissipation relation connecting the system-bath correlation function and the spectral density. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our methodology by combining it with tensor-network methodologies and simulating the quantum dynamics of complex excitonic systems in a highly structured bosonic environment. The new modeling framework sets the basis for a leap in the analysis of open quantum systems, providing controlled accuracy at significantly reduced computational costs, with benefits in all connected research areas.</p>","PeriodicalId":15313,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chemical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142466463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thermal conductivity in modified sodium silicate glasses is governed by modal phase changes.","authors":"Philip Rasmussen, Søren S Sørensen","doi":"10.1063/5.0230354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0230354","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The thermal conductivity of glasses is well-known to be significantly harder to theoretically describe compared to crystalline materials. Because of this fact, the fundamental understanding of thermal conductivity in glasses remain extremely poor when moving beyond the case of simple glasses, e.g., glassy SiO2, and into so-called \"modified\" oxide glasses, that is, glasses where other oxides (e.g., alkali oxides) have been added to break up the network and alter, e.g., elastic and thermal properties. This lack of knowledge is apparent despite how modified glasses comprise the far majority of known glasses. In the present work, we study an archetypical series of sodium silicate [xNa2O-(100 - x)SiO2] glasses. Analyses of modal contributions reveal how increasing Na2O content induces increasing vibrational localization with a change of vibrations to be less ordered and a related general decrease in modal contributions to thermal conductivity. We find the vibrational phases (acoustic vs optical) of sodium vibrations to be relatively disordered compared to the network-forming silicon and oxygen species, explaining how increasing Na2O content decreases thermal conductivity. Our work sheds new light on the fundamentals of glassy heat transfer as well as the interplay between thermal conduction and modal characteristics in glasses.</p>","PeriodicalId":15313,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chemical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142466512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Differentially heterogeneous hydration environment of the familial mutants of α-synuclein.","authors":"Leena Aggarwal, Sayan Karmakar, Parbati Biswas","doi":"10.1063/5.0230853","DOIUrl":"10.1063/5.0230853","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The behavior of hydration water around familial Parkinson's disease linked mutants of α-synuclein may be linked to the early-onset of Parkinson's disease. For the first time, this study compares the local structure and dynamics of hydration water around different segments of some of the natural mutants of α-synuclein, i.e., E46K, G51D, A30P, and A53E, with that of the wild-type protein through explicit water MD simulations. The results show that the C-terminal segments of the fast aggregating mutants such as E46K and A30P are less exposed to water, while those of the slow aggregating ones such as A53E and G51D are more exposed to water relative to that of the wild-type protein. In addition, the water molecules are found to be more ordered around the C-terminal segment of the A53E and G51D mutants as compared to the wild-type protein. This is due to an increase in the overall charge of α-syn upon A53E and G51D mutations. The translational and rotational motions of water molecules in the hydration shell of the C-terminal segment of A53E and G51D mutants are found to be faster relative to that of the wild-type protein. This study validates the differential hydration environment around the C-terminal segment for the causative and protective mutants of α-synuclein.</p>","PeriodicalId":15313,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chemical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142466457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Construction of Ag-modified ZnO/g-C3N4 heterostructure for enhanced photocatalysis performance.","authors":"Shanshan Liu, Shaoli Cheng, Jiale Zheng, Junhui Liu, Mingju Huang","doi":"10.1063/5.0226195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0226195","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>ZnO/g-C3N4 heterojunction modified with Ag nanoparticles (ZnO/CN/Ag) was synthesized by depositing ZnO nanorods/Ag nanoparticles onto g-C3N4 nanosheets. Under xenon lamp irradiation, 99% of Rhodamine B (RhB) was degraded by ZnO/CN/Ag-5% composite within 30 min, which was much higher than the degradation efficiency of ZnO and ZnO/CN. The synergistic effect of g-C3N4 and ZnO, along with the localized surface plasmon resonance effect of Ag NPs, contributes to the improvement of photocatalytic performance. Ag nanoparticle provides another charge transfer path from g-C3N4 to ZnO, which speeds up the separation of electron-hole pairs. Meanwhile, the catalyst had good stability and recyclability. Finite-difference time-domain method and the density functional theory were used to obtain the charge transfer process. The photodegradation process has been studied in depth.</p>","PeriodicalId":15313,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chemical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142466455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lifeng Wang, Ling Cai, Xiong He, Fanli Yang, Jie Chen, Lizhi Yi, Min Liu, Yunli Xu, Zhengcai Xia, Liqing Pan
{"title":"Surface weak ferromagnet coupling induced giant room-temperature spontaneous exchange bias in antiferromagnet Fe3BO6 polycrystals.","authors":"Lifeng Wang, Ling Cai, Xiong He, Fanli Yang, Jie Chen, Lizhi Yi, Min Liu, Yunli Xu, Zhengcai Xia, Liqing Pan","doi":"10.1063/5.0225163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0225163","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The spontaneous exchange bias effect (SEB) has wide application prospects in information storage technologies. In this study, nanoscale raw materials were used to fabricate antiferromagnetic Fe3BO6 polycrystals. The obtained Fe3BO6 exhibited a large SEB effect, where the value of the spontaneous exchange bias field at room temperature was as large as ∼4234 Oe. The room-temperature training effect, temperature-dependence, and maximum field-dependence of the HSEB were investigated. We propose that this giant SEB originates from the exchange-coupling interactions between the weak ferromagnetic surface state and the bulk antiferromagnetic state. The theoretical analysis results were further verified by comparing the magnetic properties of the Fe3BO6 with relatively low crystallinity. The results of this investigation will help find promising candidate materials for devices based on the SEB effect.</p>","PeriodicalId":15313,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chemical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142466509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}