Taking Ockham's razor to enzyme dynamics and catalysis

DR Glowacki, JN Harvey, AJ Mulholland - Nature chemistry, 2012 - nature.com
The role of protein dynamics in enzyme catalysis is a matter of intense current debate.
Enzyme-catalysed reactions that involve significant quantum tunnelling can give rise to …

Potential‐Energy Surfaces, the Born–Oppenheimer Approximations, and the Franck–Condon Principle: Back to the Roots

H Mustroph - ChemPhysChem, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of a potential‐energy surface (PES) is central to our understanding of
spectroscopy, photochemistry, and chemical kinetics. However, the terminology used in …

Science case for the new high-intensity muon beams HIMB at PSI

M Aiba, A Amato, A Antognini, S Ban, N Berger… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
In April 2021, scientists active in muon physics met to discuss and work out the physics case
for the new High-Intensity Muon Beams (HIMB) project at PSI that could deliver of order …

Chemical reaction rates from ring polymer molecular dynamics: zero point energy conservation in Mu+ H2→ MuH+ H

RP de Tudela, FJ Aoiz… - The journal of …, 2012 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A fundamental issue in the field of reaction dynamics is the inclusion of the quantum
mechanical (QM) effects such as zero point energy (ZPE) and tunneling in molecular …

Interception of Excited Vibrational Quantum States by O2 in Atmospheric Association Reactions

DR Glowacki, J Lockhart, MA Blitz, SJ Klippenstein… - Science, 2012 - science.org
Bimolecular reactions in Earth's atmosphere are generally assumed to proceed between
reactants whose internal quantum states are fully thermally relaxed. Here, we highlight a …

Direct observation of forward-scattering oscillations in the H+HD→H2+D reaction

D Yuan, S Yu, W Chen, J Sang, C Luo, T Wang, X Xu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Accurate measurements of product state-resolved angular distributions are central to
fundamental studies of chemical reaction dynamics. Yet, fine quantum-mechanical …

Rate coefficients and kinetic isotope effects of the X+ CH4→ CH3+ HX (X= H, D, Mu) reactions from ring polymer molecular dynamics

Y Li, YV Suleimanov, J Li, WH Green… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The thermal rate coefficients and kinetic isotope effects have been calculated using ring
polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) for the prototypical reactions between methane and …

The any particle molecular orbital approach: A short review of the theory and applications

A Reyes, F Moncada, J Charry - International Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The any particle molecular orbital (APMO) approach extends regular electronic structure
methods to study atomic and molecular systems in which electrons and other particles are …

LOWDIN: The any particle molecular orbital code

R Flores‐Moreno, E Posada, F Moncada… - … Journal of Quantum …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
LOWDIN is a computational program that implements the Any Particle Molecular Orbital
(APMO) method. The current version of the code encompasses Hartree–Fock, second‐order …

Improved measurements of muonic helium ground-state hyperfine structure at a near-zero magnetic field

P Strasser, S Fukumura, R Iwai, S Kanda… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Muonic helium atom hyperfine structure (HFS) measurements are a sensitive tool to test the
three-body atomic system and bound-state quantum electrodynamics theory, and determine …