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Title: Communication: On the consistency of approximate quantum dynamics simulation methods for vibrational spectra in the condensed phase

Abstract

Including quantum mechanical effects on the dynamics of nuclei in the condensed phase is challenging, because the complexity of exact methods grows exponentially with the number of quantum degrees of freedom. Efforts to circumvent these limitations can be traced down to two approaches: methods that treat a small subset of the degrees of freedom with rigorous quantum mechanics, considering the rest of the system as a static or classical environment, and methods that treat the whole system quantum mechanically, but using approximate dynamics. Here, we perform a systematic comparison between these two philosophies for the description of quantum effects in vibrational spectroscopy, taking the Embedded Local Monomer model and a mixed quantum-classical model as representatives of the first family of methods, and centroid molecular dynamics and thermostatted ring polymer molecular dynamics as examples of the latter. We use as benchmarks D{sub 2}O doped with HOD and pure H{sub 2}O at three distinct thermodynamic state points (ice Ih at 150 K, and the liquid at 300 K and 600 K), modeled with the simple q-TIP4P/F potential energy and dipole moment surfaces. With few exceptions the different techniques yield IR absorption frequencies that are consistent with one another within a few tensmore » of cm{sup −1}. Comparison with classical molecular dynamics demonstrates the importance of nuclear quantum effects up to the highest temperature, and a detailed discussion of the discrepancies between the various methods let us draw some (circumstantial) conclusions about the impact of the very different approximations that underlie them. Such cross validation between radically different approaches could indicate a way forward to further improve the state of the art in simulations of condensed-phase quantum dynamics.« less

Authors:
 [1]; ;  [2];  [3];  [4]
  1. Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ (United Kingdom)
  2. Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation and Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322 (United States)
  3. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0314 (United States)
  4. Laboratory of Computational Science and Modeling, IMX, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne (Switzerland)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22415331
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Journal of Chemical Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 141; Journal Issue: 18; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0021-9606
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; ABSORPTION; APPROXIMATIONS; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; DIPOLE MOMENTS; DOPED MATERIALS; HEAVY WATER; LIQUIDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS METHOD; POLYMERS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADICALS; SIMULATION; SPECTRA; SPECTROSCOPY; VALIDATION

Citation Formats

Rossi, Mariana, Liu, Hanchao, Bowman, Joel, Paesani, Francesco, and Ceriotti, Michele. Communication: On the consistency of approximate quantum dynamics simulation methods for vibrational spectra in the condensed phase. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4901214.
Rossi, Mariana, Liu, Hanchao, Bowman, Joel, Paesani, Francesco, & Ceriotti, Michele. Communication: On the consistency of approximate quantum dynamics simulation methods for vibrational spectra in the condensed phase. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901214
Rossi, Mariana, Liu, Hanchao, Bowman, Joel, Paesani, Francesco, and Ceriotti, Michele. 2014. "Communication: On the consistency of approximate quantum dynamics simulation methods for vibrational spectra in the condensed phase". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901214.
@article{osti_22415331,
title = {Communication: On the consistency of approximate quantum dynamics simulation methods for vibrational spectra in the condensed phase},
author = {Rossi, Mariana and Liu, Hanchao and Bowman, Joel and Paesani, Francesco and Ceriotti, Michele},
abstractNote = {Including quantum mechanical effects on the dynamics of nuclei in the condensed phase is challenging, because the complexity of exact methods grows exponentially with the number of quantum degrees of freedom. Efforts to circumvent these limitations can be traced down to two approaches: methods that treat a small subset of the degrees of freedom with rigorous quantum mechanics, considering the rest of the system as a static or classical environment, and methods that treat the whole system quantum mechanically, but using approximate dynamics. Here, we perform a systematic comparison between these two philosophies for the description of quantum effects in vibrational spectroscopy, taking the Embedded Local Monomer model and a mixed quantum-classical model as representatives of the first family of methods, and centroid molecular dynamics and thermostatted ring polymer molecular dynamics as examples of the latter. We use as benchmarks D{sub 2}O doped with HOD and pure H{sub 2}O at three distinct thermodynamic state points (ice Ih at 150 K, and the liquid at 300 K and 600 K), modeled with the simple q-TIP4P/F potential energy and dipole moment surfaces. With few exceptions the different techniques yield IR absorption frequencies that are consistent with one another within a few tens of cm{sup −1}. Comparison with classical molecular dynamics demonstrates the importance of nuclear quantum effects up to the highest temperature, and a detailed discussion of the discrepancies between the various methods let us draw some (circumstantial) conclusions about the impact of the very different approximations that underlie them. Such cross validation between radically different approaches could indicate a way forward to further improve the state of the art in simulations of condensed-phase quantum dynamics.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4901214},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22415331}, journal = {Journal of Chemical Physics},
issn = {0021-9606},
number = 18,
volume = 141,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Nov 14 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Fri Nov 14 00:00:00 EST 2014}
}