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High-quality potential energy surfaces (PES) are a prerequisite for quantitative atomistic simulations, with both quantum and classical dynamics approaches. The ultimate test for the validity of a PES are comparisons with judiciously chosen…

A very accurate, (HF)$_2$ potential energy surface (PES) due to Huang et al. (J. Chem. Phys., 150, 154302 (2019)) is used to calculate the energy levels of the HF dimer by solving the nuclear-motion Schr\"{o}dinger equation using…

The potential energy surface (PES) of dissociative adsorption of H_2 on Pd(100) is investigated using density functional theory and the full-potential linear augmented plane wave (FP-LAPW) method. Several dissociation pathways are…

mtrl-th · Physics 2009-10-28 Steffen Wilke , Matthias Scheffler

We have calculated the three-dimensional potential energy surface (PES) for the fission of compound nucleus $^{236}$U using the covariant density functional theory with constraints on the axial quadrupole and octupole deformations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-30 Ming-Hui Zhou , Ze-Yu Li , Sheng-Yuan Chen , Yong-Jing Chen , Zhi-Pan Li

Combining first-principles accuracy and empirical-potential efficiency for the description of the potential energy surface (PES) is the philosopher's stone for unraveling the nature of matter via atomistic simulation. This has been…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-07 Wanrun Jiang , Yuzhi Zhang , Linfeng Zhang , Han Wang

The predictive simulation of molecular liquids requires models that are not only accurate, but computationally efficient enough to handle the large systems and long time scales required for reliable prediction of macroscopic properties. We…

Several nitrogen-bearing molecules, such as methyl cyanide (or acetonitrile, CH$_3$CN) and methyl isocyanide (CH$_3$NC) of interest here, have been observed in various astrophysical environments. The accurate modeling of their abundance…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Malek Ben Khalifa , Paul J. Dagdigian , Jérôme Loreau

A detailed interpretation of the detected emission lines of environments in which propyne (or methyl acetylene, CH$_3$CCH) is observed requires a knowledge of its collisional rate coefficients with the most abundant species in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-28 M. Ben Khalifa , B. Darna , J. Loreau

In this work, we present a new fitting of the Na+HF potential energy surface (PES) utilizing a new optmization method based in Genetic Algorithm. Topology studies, such as isoenergetic contours and Minimum Energy Path(MEP), show that the…

We present a combination of the incremental expansion of potential energy surfaces (PESs), known as n-mode expansion, with the incremental evaluation of the electronic energy in a many-body approach. The application of semi-local…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-08-15 Carolin König , Ove Christiansen

We train an equivariant machine learning model to predict energies and forces for a real-world study of hydrogen combustion under conditions of finite temperature and pressure. This challenging case for reactive chemistry illustrates that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Xingyi Guan , Joseph Heindel , Taehee Ko , Chao Yang , Teresa Head-Gordon

A new analytical potential energy surface (PES) has been constructed for H$_2^+$-He using a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) representation from an extensive number of $ab initio$ energies computed at the multi-reference and full…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Debasish Koner , Juan Carlos San Vicente Veliz , Ad van der Avoird , Markus Meuwly

The NH2 + O reaction represents a critical oxidation pathway in ammonia and hydrazine combustion, yet significant discrepancies persist in reported kinetics. Here, we generate a full-dimensional ground-state potential energy surface (PES)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Ying Xing , Weijie Hua , Junxiang Zuo

We introduce an accurate and efficient algebraic technique for the computation of the vibrational spectra of triatomic molecules, of both linear and bent equilibrium geometry. The full three-dimensional potential energy surface (PES), which…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 T. Sedivcova-Uhlikova , Hewa Y. Abdullah , Nicola Manini

Potential Energy Surfaces (PESs) are an indispensable tool to investigate, characterise and understand chemical and biological systems in the gas and condensed phases. Advances in Machine Learning (ML) methodologies have led to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Valerii Andreichev , Sena Aydin , Kai Töpfer , Markus Meuwly , Luis Itza Vazquez-Salazar

We propose a simple scheme to estimate potential energy surface (PES) with which the accuracy can be easily controlled and improved up to the level of the density functional theory (DFT) calculations. It is based on a model selection within…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-07-11 Atsuto Seko , Akira Takahashi , Isao Tanaka

The reaction dynamics for the H + HeH$^+$ $\rightarrow$ He + H$_2^+$ reaction in its electronic ground state is investigated using two different representations of the potential energy surface (PES). The first uses a combined kernel and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Meenu Upadhyay , Silvan Käser , Jayakrushna Sahoo , Yohann Scribano , Markus Meuwly

We propose a hypothesis that the potential energy surface (PES) of interlayer interaction in diverse 2D materials can be universally described by the first spatial Fourier harmonics. This statement (checked previously for the interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-23 Alexander V. Lebedev , Irina V. Lebedeva , Andrey M. Popov , Andrey A. Knizhnik , Nikolai A. Poklonski , Sergey A. Vyrko

We show that chemically-accurate potential energy surfaces (PESs) can be generated from quantum computers by measuring only the density along an adiabatic transition between different molecular geometries. In lieu of using phase estimation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 James Brown

The accurate description of molecule-surface interactions requires a detailed knowledge of the underlying potential-energy surface (PES). Recently, neural networks (NNs) have been shown to be an efficient technique to accurately interpolate…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Jorg Behler , Sonke Lorenz , Karsten Reuter