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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 156, 期 15, 页码 -出版社
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0082332
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- MinCiencias
- University of Antioquia (Colombia)
- Simons Foundation (USA)
- Minciencias (Colombia)
Ab initio metadynamics allows for accurate extraction of free-energy landscapes and an interface for computing these landscapes and enhanced-sampling algorithms is introduced. The interface is used to estimate the free-energy landscapes of Ag-5 and Ag-6 clusters, with maximum errors of tens of meV.
Ab initio metadynamics enables the extraction of free-energy landscapes having the accuracy of first-principles electronic structure methods. We introduce an interface between the PLUMED code that computes free-energy landscapes and enhanced-sampling algorithms and the Atomic Simulation Environment (ASE) module, which includes several ab initio electronic structure codes. The interface is validated with a Lennard-Jones cluster free-energy landscape calculation by averaging multiple short metadynamics trajectories. We use this interface and analysis to estimate the free-energy landscape of Ag-5 and Ag-6 clusters at 10, 100, and 300 K with the radius of gyration and coordination number as collective variables, finding at most tens of meV in error. Relative free-energy differences between the planar and non-planar isomers of both clusters decrease with temperature in agreement with previously proposed stabilization of non-planar isomers. Interestingly, we find that Ag-6 is the smallest silver cluster where entropic effects at room temperature boost the non-planar isomer probability to a competing state. The new ASE-PLUMED interface enables simulating nanosystem electronic properties under more realistic temperature-dependent conditions. Published under an exclusive license by AIP Publishing.
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