State-resolved thermal reaction rate from ring-polymer surface hopping

ORAL

Abstract

Employing the recently developed isomorphic Hamiltonian framework for including nuclear quantum effects in mixed quantum-classical non-adiabatic dynamics, [J. Chem. Phys., 148, 102327 (2018)] we present a flux-side formulation of state-resolved thermal reaction rates for ring-polymer surface hopping. The method is shown to be robust and straightforwardly implemented, and numerical results reveal that RPSH in the isomorphic Hamiltonian framework leads to excellent dividing-surface independence, due to improved preservation of the path-integral statistics. The method is further applied to inverstigate F+H2 reactive scattering with an ab initio multi-level potential energy surface and its effectiveness is demonstrated with preliminary results.

*We acknowledge support from the Office of Naval Research, Air Force Offce of Scientific Research.
Computational resources were provided by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, which is supported by the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy.

Presenters

  • Xuecheng Tao

    • Caltech

Authors

  • Xuecheng Tao

    • Caltech
  • Philip Shushkov

    • Caltech
  • Thomas Miller

    • Caltech