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Free-energy landscape theory is often used to describe complex molecular systems. Here, a microscopic description of water structure and dynamics based on configuration-space-networks and molecular dynamics simulations of the TIP4P/2005…
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Globally accurate full-dimensional ground state potential energy surface (PES) for the Cl($^2$P) + XCl $\to$ HCl + Cl($^2$P) reaction, a prototypical heavy-light-heavy abstract reaction, is developed using permutation invariant polynomial…
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We propose a path-integral variant of the DMRG method to calculate real-time correlation functions at arbitrary finite temperatures. To illustrate the method we study the longitudinal autocorrelation function of the $XXZ$-chain. By…
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We present a computational scheme for extracting the energy level alignment of a metal/molecule interface, based on constrained density functional theory and local exchange and correlation functionals. The method, applied here to benzene on…
It has been proposed for a long time now that the reduction of the thermal conductivity by reducing the phonon mean free path is one of the best way to improve the current performance of thermoelectrics. By measuring the thermal conductance…
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…