Quantum dynamics of water dissociative chemisorption on rigid Ni(111): An approximate nine-dimensional treatment
- Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026 (China)
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131 (United States)
- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071 (China)
The quantum dynamics of water dissociative chemisorption on the rigid Ni(111) surface is investigated using a recently developed nine-dimensional potential energy surface. The quantum dynamical model includes explicitly seven degrees of freedom of D{sub 2}O at fixed surface sites, and the final results were obtained with a site-averaging model. The mode specificity in the site-specific results is reported and analyzed. Finally, the approximate sticking probabilities for various vibrationally excited states of D{sub 2}O are obtained considering surface lattice effects and formally all nine degrees of freedom. The comparison with experiment reveals the inaccuracy of the density functional theory and suggests the need to improve the potential energy surface.
- OSTI ID:
- 22657945
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 144, Issue 16; Other Information: (c) 2016 Author(s); Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0021-9606
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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