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When two or more atoms bind to a solid surface, the substrate can mediate an interaction between them. In this paper, we use density-functional theory to quantify the substrate-mediated pair interaction between two adatoms on a…
Recent studies have highlighted the sensitivity of active matter to boundaries and their geometries. Here we develop a general theory for the dynamics and statistics of active particles on curved surfaces and illustrate it on two examples.…
We suggest to include the density of electron charge explicitly in the electron potential of density functional theory, rather than implicitly via exchange-correlation functionals. The advantages of the approach are conceptual and…
Using the quantum-mechanical approach combined with the image charge method we calculated the lowest energy levels of the impurities and neutral vacancies with two electrons or holes located in the vicinity of flat surface of different…
Ground-state properties of the non-interacting symmetric single-impurity Anderson model (SIAM) are derived from the corresponding eigenenergy equation. Explicit formulae are given for the ground-state energy, the hybridization, and the…
Theoretical investigations of surface-state electron dynamics in noble metals are reported. The dynamically screened interaction is computed, within many-body theory, by going beyond a free-electron description of the metal surface.…
The potential of mean-field decomposition techniques in interpreting electronic transitions in molecules is explored, particularly, the usefulness of these for offering computational signatures of different classes of such excitations. When…
In this work, we report results from our extensive spectroscopic study on AlF and AlCl molecules, keeping in mind potential laboratory as well as astrophysical applications. We carry out detailed electronic structure calculations in both…
Ground-state electronic structure calculations using Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) offer an unprecedented balance between efficiency and accuracy, now paradigmatic to the fields of quantum chemistry and condensed matter…
Molecular dynamics simulations at a constant electric potential are an essential tool to study electrochemical processes, providing microscopic information on the structural, thermodynamic, and dynamical properties. Despite the numerous…
Excited-state molecular dynamics (ESMD) simulations near conical intersections (CIs) pose significant challenges when using machine learning potentials (MLPs). Although MLPs have gained recognition for their integration into mixed…
The potential of zero free charge (PZFC) value is a crucial parameter in electrochemistry. However, the evaluations of PZFC have traditionally been difficult. To overcome this challenge, we applied a hybrid solvation method that…
First-principles methods have recently established themselves in the field of photocathode research to provide microscopic, quantum-mechanical characterization of relevant materials for electron sources. While most of the existing studies…
Reliable first-principles calculations of electrochemical processes require accurate prediction of the interfacial capacitance, a challenge for current computationally-efficient continuum solvation methodologies. We develop a model for the…
We study the dynamics of circular active particles (AP) on a two dimensional periodic undulated surface. Each particle has an internal energy mechanism which is modeled by an active friction force and it is controlled by an activity…
We have used the hyperspherical adiabatic representation to describe the system of three identical bosons in an spin stretched state interacting by an attractive 1/r potential. A proposal has been made how such a system might be realized…
Surface energies of metal-based systems are important for determining the Wulff-constructed shapes of metal nanoparticles and understanding the stability. We have developed a coordination number-based model to predict the total energy of…
Experimental observations of multi-quantum relaxation of highly vibrationally excited NO scattering from Au(111) are a benchmark for the breakdown of Born-Oppenheimer approximation in molecule-surface systems. This remarkable vibrational…
Recently, a novel low-energy collective excitation has been predicted to exist at metal surfaces where a quasi two-dimensional (2D) surface-state band coexists with the underlying three-dimensional (3D) continuum. Here we present a model in…