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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 148, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.5007180
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- Icelandic Research Fund
- Center for Nonlinear Studies at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
- University of Iceland Research Fund
Methodology for finding optimal tunneling paths and evaluating tunneling rates for atomic rear-rangements is described. First, an optimal JWKB tunneling path for a system with fixed energy is obtained using a line integral extension of the nudged elastic band method. Then, a calculation of the dynamics along the path is used to determine the temperature at which it corresponds to an optimal Feynman path for thermally activated tunneling (instanton) and a harmonic approximation is used to estimate the transition rate. The method is illustrated with calculations for a modified two-dimensional Muller-Brown surface but is efficient enough to be used in combination with electronic structure calculations of the energy and atomic forces in systems containing many atoms. An example is presented where tunneling is the dominant mechanism well above room temperature as an H3BNH3 molecule dissociates to form H-2. Also, a solid-state example is presented where density functional theory calculations of H atom tunneling in a Ta crystal give close agreement with experimental measurements on hydrogen diffusion over a wide range in temperature. Published by AIP Publishing.
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