Theoretical advances in polariton chemistry and molecular cavity quantum electrodynamics

A Mandal, MAD Taylor, BM Weight… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
When molecules are coupled to an optical cavity, new light–matter hybrid states, so-called
polaritons, are formed due to quantum light–matter interactions. With the experimental …

Ring-polymer molecular dynamics: Quantum effects in chemical dynamics from classical trajectories in an extended phase space

S Habershon, DE Manolopoulos… - Annual review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews the ring-polymer molecular dynamics model for condensed-phase
quantum dynamics. This model, which involves classical evolution in an extended ring …

Quantum‐classical path integral evaluation of reaction rates with a near‐equilibrium flux formulation

A Bose, N Makri - International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Quantum‐classical formulations of reactive flux correlation functions require the partial Weyl–
Wigner transform of the thermalized flux operator, whose numerical evaluation is unstable …

Cavity frequency-dependent theory for vibrational polariton chemistry

X Li, A Mandal, P Huo - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Recent experiments demonstrate the control of chemical reactivities by coupling molecules
inside an optical microcavity. In contrast, transition state theory predicts no change of the …

[HTML][HTML] Non-equilibrium reactive flux: A unified framework for slow and fast reaction kinetics

A Bose, N Makri - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The flux formulation of reaction rate theory is recast in terms of the expectation value of the
reactive flux with an initial condition that corresponds to a non-equilibrium, factorized …

Cavity Casimir-Polder forces and their effects in ground-state chemical reactivity

J Galego, C Climent, FJ Garcia-Vidal, J Feist - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
Here, we present a fundamental study on how the ground-state chemical reactivity of a
single molecule can be modified in a QED scenario, ie, when it is placed inside a nanoscale …

[PDF][PDF] Amber 10

DA Case, TA Darden, TE Cheatham, CL Simmerling… - 2008 - infoscience.epfl.ch
Amber is the collective name for a suite of programs that allow users to carry out molecular
dynamics simulations, particularly on biomolecules. None of the individual programs carries …

Reaction-rate theory: fifty years after Kramers

P Hänggi, P Talkner, M Borkovec - Reviews of modern physics, 1990 - APS
The calculation of rate coefficients is a discipline of nonlinear science of importance to much
of physics, chemistry, engineering, and biology. Fifty years after Kramers' seminal paper on …

The multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree (MCTDH) method: a highly efficient algorithm for propagating wavepackets

MH Beck, A Jäckle, GA Worth, HD Meyer - Physics reports, 2000 - Elsevier
A review is given on the multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree (MCTDH) method, which
is an algorithm for propagating wavepackets. The formal derivation, numerical …

Reversible work transition state theory: application to dissociative adsorption of hydrogen

G Mills, H Jónsson, GK Schenter - Surface Science, 1995 - Elsevier
A practical method for finding free energy barriers for transitions in high-dimensional
classical and quantum systems is presented and used to calculate the dissociative sticking …