Lixue Cheng, P. Bernát Szabó, Zeno Schätzle, Derk Kooi, Jonas Köhler, Klaas J. H. Giesbertz, Frank Noé, Jan Hermann, Paola Gori-Giorgi, Adam Foster
{"title":"Highly Accurate Real-space Electron Densities with Neural Networks","authors":"Lixue Cheng, P. Bernát Szabó, Zeno Schätzle, Derk Kooi, Jonas Köhler, Klaas J. H. Giesbertz, Frank Noé, Jan Hermann, Paola Gori-Giorgi, Adam Foster","doi":"arxiv-2409.01306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.01306","url":null,"abstract":"Variational ab-initio methods in quantum chemistry stand out among other\u0000methods in providing direct access to the wave function. This allows in\u0000principle straightforward extraction of any other observable of interest,\u0000besides the energy, but in practice this extraction is often technically\u0000difficult and computationally impractical. Here, we consider the electron\u0000density as a central observable in quantum chemistry and introduce a novel\u0000method to obtain accurate densities from real-space many-electron wave\u0000functions by representing the density with a neural network that captures known\u0000asymptotic properties and is trained from the wave function by score matching\u0000and noise-contrastive estimation. We use variational quantum Monte Carlo with\u0000deep-learning ans\"atze (deep QMC) to obtain highly accurate wave functions\u0000free of basis set errors, and from them, using our novel method,\u0000correspondingly accurate electron densities, which we demonstrate by\u0000calculating dipole moments, nuclear forces, contact densities, and other\u0000density-based properties.","PeriodicalId":501304,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Chemical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142190209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantum Density Mechanics: Accurate, purely density-based textit{ab initio} implementation of many-electron quantum mechanics","authors":"James C. Ellenbogen","doi":"arxiv-2409.00586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.00586","url":null,"abstract":"This paper derives and demonstrates a new, purely density-based ab initio\u0000approach for calculation of the energies and properties of many-electron\u0000systems. It is based upon the discovery of relationships that govern the\u0000\"mechanics\" of the electron density -- i.e., relations that connect its\u0000behaviors at different points in space. Unlike wave mechanics or prior\u0000electron-density-based implementations, such as DFT, this density-mechanical\u0000implementation of quantum mechanics involves no many-electron or one-electron\u0000wave functions (i.e., orbitals). Thus, there is no need to calculate exchange\u0000energies, because there are no orbitals to permute or \"exchange\" within\u0000two-electron integrals used to calculate electron-electron repulsion energies.\u0000In practice, exchange does not exist within quantum density mechanics. In fact,\u0000no two-electron integrals need be calculated at all, beyond a single coulomb\u0000integral for the 2-electron system. Instead, a \"radius expansion method\" is\u0000introduced that permits determination of the two-electron interaction for an\u0000N-electron system from one with (N-1)-electrons. Also, the method does not rely\u0000upon a Schrodinger-like equation or the variational method for determination of\u0000accurate energies and densities. Rather, the above-described results follow\u0000from the derivation and solution of a \"governing equation\" for each number of\u0000electrons to obtain a screening relation that connects the behavior at the\u0000\"tail\" of a one-electron density, to that at the Bohr radius. Solution of these\u0000equations produces simple expressions that deliver a total energy for a\u00002-electron atom that is nearly identical to the experimental value, plus\u0000accurate energies for neutral 3, 4, and 5-electron atoms, along with accurate\u0000one-electron densities of these atoms. Further, these methods scale in\u0000complexity only as N, not as a power of N, as do most other accurate\u0000many-electron methods.","PeriodicalId":501304,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Chemical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142190210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yu Su, Yao Wang, Zi-Fan Zhu, Yuan Kong, Rui-Xue Xu, YiJing Yan, Xiao Zheng
{"title":"Extended dissipaton-equation-of-motion approach to study the electronic migration in adatom-graphene composite","authors":"Yu Su, Yao Wang, Zi-Fan Zhu, Yuan Kong, Rui-Xue Xu, YiJing Yan, Xiao Zheng","doi":"arxiv-2409.00669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.00669","url":null,"abstract":"Graphene has garnered significant attention due to its unique properties.\u0000Among its many intriguing characteristics, the tuning effects induced by\u0000adsorbed atoms (adatoms) provide immense potential for the design of\u0000graphene-based electronic devices. This work explores the electronic migration\u0000in the adatom-graphene composite, using the extended\u0000dissipaton-equation-of-motion (DEOM) approach. As an exact dynamics theory for\u0000open quantum systems embedded in environments composed of non-interacting\u0000electrons, the extended DEOM is capable of handling both linear and quadratic\u0000environmental couplings (a certain non-Gaussian effect) which account for the\u0000interactions between the adatom and the graphene substrate. We demonstrate and\u0000analyze the adatom-graphene correlated properties and the tuning effects by\u0000simulating the adatom spectral functions with varied Coulomb repulsion\u0000strengths. This work offers not only advanced theoretical methods but also new\u0000insights into the theoretical investigation of complex functional materials\u0000such as graphene-based electronic devices.","PeriodicalId":501304,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Chemical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142224807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"General Quantum Alchemical Free Energy Simulations via Hamiltonian Interpolation","authors":"Chenghan Li, Xing Zhang, Garnet Kin-Lic Chan","doi":"arxiv-2408.17002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.17002","url":null,"abstract":"We present an implementation of alchemical free energy simulations at the\u0000quantum mechanical level by directly interpolating the electronic Hamiltonian.\u0000The method is compatible with any level of electronic structure theory and\u0000requires only one quantum calculation for each molecular dynamics step in\u0000contrast to multiple energy evaluations that would be needed when interpolating\u0000the ground-state energies. We demonstrate the correctness and applicability of\u0000the technique by computing alchemical free energy changes of gas-phase\u0000molecules, with both nuclear and electron creation/annihilation. We also show\u0000an initial application to first-principles pKa calculation for solvated\u0000molecules where we quantum mechanically annihilate a bonded proton.","PeriodicalId":501304,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Chemical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142190213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yangyang Song, Ning Zhang, Yibo Lei, Yang Guo, Wenjian Liu
{"title":"QUEST#4X: an extension of QUEST#4 for benchmarking multireference wavefunction methods","authors":"Yangyang Song, Ning Zhang, Yibo Lei, Yang Guo, Wenjian Liu","doi":"arxiv-2409.00302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.00302","url":null,"abstract":"Given a number of datasets for evaluating the performance of single reference\u0000methods for the low-lying excited states of closed-shell molecules, a\u0000comprehensive dataset for assessing the performance of multireference methods\u0000for the low-lying excited states of open-shell systems is still lacking. For\u0000this reason, we propose an extension (QUEST#4X) of the radial subset of\u0000QUEST#4 [J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2020, 16, 3720] to cover 110 doublet and 39\u0000quartet excited states. Near-exact results obtained by iCIPT2 (iterative\u0000configuration interaction with selection and second-order perturbation\u0000correction) are taken as benchmark to calibrate SDSCI (static-dynamic-static\u0000configuration interaction) and SDSPT2 (static-dynamic-static second-order\u0000perturbation theory), which are minimal MRCI and CI-like perturbation theory,\u0000respectively. It is found that SDSCI is very close in accuracy to ic-MRCISD\u0000(internally contracted multireference configuration interaction with singles\u0000and doubles), although its computational cost is just that of one iteration of\u0000the latter. Unlike most variants of MRPT2, SDSPT2 treats single and multiple\u0000states in the same way, and performs similarly as MS-NEVPT2 (multi-state\u0000n-electron valence second-order perturbation theory). These findings put the\u0000SDS family of methods (SDSPT2, SDSCI, and iCIPT2, etc.) on a firm basis.","PeriodicalId":501304,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Chemical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142224804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Propellant Discovery For Electrospray Thrusters Using Machine Learning","authors":"Rafid Bendimerad, Elaine Petro","doi":"arxiv-2408.16951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.16951","url":null,"abstract":"This study introduces a machine learning framework to predict the suitability\u0000of ionic liquids with unknown physical properties as propellants for\u0000electrospray thrusters based on their molecular structure. We construct a\u0000training dataset by labeling ionic liquids as suitable (+1) or unsuitable (-1)\u0000for electrospray thrusters based on their density, viscosity, and surface\u0000tension. The ionic liquids are represented by their molecular descriptors\u0000calculated using the Mordred package. We evaluate four machine learning\u0000algorithms: Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest,\u0000and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), with SVM demonstrating superior\u0000predictive performance. The SVM predicts 193 candidate propellants from a\u0000dataset of ionic liquids with unknown physical properties. Further, we employ\u0000Shapley Additive Explanations (SHAP) to assess and rank the impact of\u0000individual molecular descriptors on model decisions.","PeriodicalId":501304,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Chemical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142190214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the key kinetic interactions between NOx and unsaturated hydrocarbons: H-atom abstraction from C3-C7 alkynes and dienes by NO2","authors":"Zhengyan Guo, Hongqing Wu, Ruoyue Tang, Xinrui Ren, Ting Zhang, Mingrui Wang, Guojie Liang, Hengjie Guo, Song Cheng","doi":"arxiv-2408.17277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.17277","url":null,"abstract":"An adequate understanding of NOx interacting chemistry is a prerequisite for\u0000a smoother transition to carbon lean and carbon free fuels such as ammonia and\u0000hydrogen. In this regard, this study presents a comprehensive study on the H\u0000atom abstraction by NO2 from C3 to C7 alkynes and dienes forming 3 HNO2 isomers\u0000(i.e., TRANS HONO, HNO2, and CIS HONO), encompassing 8 hydrocarbons and 24\u0000reactions. Through a combination of high level quantum chemistry computation,\u0000the rate coefficients for all studied reactions, over a temperature range from\u0000298 to 2000 K, are computed based on Transition State Theory using the Master\u0000Equation System Solver program with considering unsymmetric tunneling\u0000corrections. Comprehensive analysis of branching ratios elucidates the\u0000diversity and similarities between different species, different HNO2 isomers,\u0000and different abstraction sites. Incorporating the calculated rate parameters\u0000into a recent chemistry model reveals the significant influences of this type\u0000of reaction on model performance, where the updated model is consistently more\u0000reactive for all the alkynes and dienes studied in predicting autoignition\u0000characteristics. Sensitivity and flux analyses are further conducted, through\u0000which the importance of H atom abstractions by NO2 is highlighted. With the\u0000updated rate parameters, the branching ratios in fuel consumption clearly\u0000shifts towards H atom abstractions by NO2 while away from H atom abstractions\u0000by OH. The obtained results emphasize the need for adequately representing\u0000these kinetics in new alkyne and diene chemistry models to be developed by\u0000using the rate parameters determined in this study, and call for future efforts\u0000to experimentally investigate NO2 blending effects on alkynes and dienes.","PeriodicalId":501304,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Chemical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142224806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Including photoexcitation explicitly in trajectory-based nonadiabatic dynamics at no cost","authors":"Jiří Janoš, Petr Slavíček, Basile F. E. Curchod","doi":"arxiv-2408.17359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.17359","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last decades, theoretical photochemistry has produced multiple\u0000techniques to simulate the nonadiabatic dynamics of molecules. Surprisingly,\u0000much less effort has been devoted to adequately describing the first step of a\u0000photochemical or photophysical process: photoexcitation. Here, we propose a\u0000formalism to include the effect of a laser pulse in trajectory-based\u0000nonadiabatic dynamics at the level of the initial conditions, with no\u0000additional cost. The promoted density approach (PDA) decouples the excitation\u0000from the nonadiabatic dynamics by defining a new set of initial conditions,\u0000which include an excitation time. PDA with surface hopping leads to\u0000nonadiabatic dynamics simulations in excellent agreement with quantum dynamics\u0000using an explicit laser pulse and highlights the strong impact of a laser pulse\u0000on the resulting photodynamics and the limits of the (sudden) vertical\u0000excitation. Combining PDA with trajectory-based nonadiabatic methods is\u0000possible for any arbitrary-sized molecules using a code provided in this work.","PeriodicalId":501304,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Chemical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142224805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Haggai Bonneau, Yael Avni, David Andelman, Henri Orland
{"title":"Frequency-Dependent Conductivity of Concentrated Electrolytes: A Stochastic Density Functional Theory","authors":"Haggai Bonneau, Yael Avni, David Andelman, Henri Orland","doi":"arxiv-2408.17427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.17427","url":null,"abstract":"The response of ionic solutions to time-varying electric fields, quantified\u0000by a frequency-dependent conductivity, is essential in many electrochemical\u0000applications. Yet, it constitutes a challenging problem due to the combined\u0000effect of Coulombic interactions, hydrodynamics, and thermal fluctuations.\u0000Here, we study the frequency-dependent conductivity of ionic solutions using a\u0000stochastic density functional theory. In the limit of small concentrations, we\u0000recover the classical Debye and Falkenhagen (DF) result, predicting an increase\u0000in conductivity with field frequency. At higher concentrations, we use a\u0000modified Coulomb interaction potential that accounts for the hard-core\u0000repulsion between the ions, which was recently employed in the zero-frequency\u0000case. Consequently, we extend the DF result to concentrated electrolytes. We\u0000discuss experimental and numerical studies and the complexity of observing the\u0000DF effect in such setups.","PeriodicalId":501304,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Chemical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142190240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A High-Temperature Thermocouple Development by Additive Manufacturing: Tungsten-Nickel (W-Ni) and Molybdenum (Mo) Integration with Ceramic Structures","authors":"Azizul Islam, Vamsi Borra, Pedro Cortes","doi":"arxiv-2408.04800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.04800","url":null,"abstract":"Additive manufacturing holds more potential to enable the development of\u0000ceramic-based components. Ceramics offer high resistance to heat, high fracture\u0000toughness, and are extremely corrosion resistant. Thus, ceramics are widely\u0000used in sectors such as the aerospace industry, automotive, microelectronics,\u0000and biomedicine. Using various additive manufacturing platforms, ceramics with\u0000complex and uniquely designed geometry can be developed to suit specific\u0000applications. This project aims at innovating high-temperature thermocouples by\u0000embedding conductive metal pastes into a ceramic structure. The paste used\u0000includes tungsten, molybdenum, and antimony. The metal pastes are precisely\u0000extruded into a T-shaped trench inside the ceramic matrix. Following specific\u0000temperature ranges, the ceramic matrix is sintered to improve the properties of\u0000the material. The sensors produced can function at extremely high temperatures\u0000and are thereby suitable for high-temperature environments. Comparative testing\u0000of the 3D sintered sensors with conventional temperature sensors shows high\u0000correlation between the two classes of sensors. The resulting R-squared value\u0000of 0.9885 is satisfactory which implies the reliability and accuracy of 3D\u0000sintering sensors are satisfactory in temperature sensing applications.","PeriodicalId":501304,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Chemical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141935822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}