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水的从头算描述中的量子涨落和同位素效应

Quantum fluctuations and isotope effects in ab initio descriptions of water

Lu Wang, Michele Ceriotti, Thomas E. Markland

摘要:

核量子效应,如零点能和隧穿,会导致氢键系统(如液态水)的结构和动力学发生重大变化。然而,由于目前无法使用其电子结构的精确描述来模拟液态水,核和电子量子效应之间的相互作用仍然不清楚。在这里,我们使用的模拟,将原子核和电子的量子力学性质,以提供一个完全从头计算确定的粒子量子动能,自由能变化后,交换氢氘和同位素分馏比在水中。这些特性选择性地探测了核自由度的量子本质,使我们能够与最近的实验进行直接比较,并阐明电子交换和相关以及核量子涨落如何决定水中氢键的结构。

英文摘要:

Nuclear quantum effects, such as zero-point energy and tunneling, cause significant changes to the structure and dynamics of hydrogen bonded systems such as liquid water. However, due to the current inability to simulate liquid water using an exact description of its electronic structure, the interplay between nuclear and electronic quantum effects remains unclear. Here we use simulations that incorporate the quantum mechanical nature of both the nuclei and electrons to provide a fully ab initio determination of the particle quantum kinetic energies, free energy change upon exchanging hydrogen for deuterium and the isotope fractionation ratio in water. These properties, which selectively probe the quantum nature of the nuclear degrees of freedom, allow us to make direct comparison to recent experiments and elucidate how electronic exchange and correlation and nuclear quantum fluctuations determine the structure of the hydrogen bond in water.

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