Two variants of the recently developed quantum instanton (QI) model for calculating thermal rate constants of chemical reactions are applied to several collinear atom–diatom reactions with various skew angles. The results show that the original QI version of the model is consistently more accurate than the "simplest" quantum instanton version (both being applied here with one "dividing surface") and thus to be preferred. Also, for these examples (as with other earlier applications) the QI results agree well with the correct quantum rates (to within ~20% or better) for all temperatures >200 K, except for situations where dynamical corrections to transition state theory (i.e., "re-crossing" dynamics) are evident. (Since re-crossing effects are substantially reduced in higher dimensionality, this is not a cause for serious concern.) A procedure is also described which facilitates use of the METROPOLIS algorithm for evaluating all quantities that appear in the QI rate expression by Monte Carlo path integral methods.
Test of the quantum instanton approximation for thermal rate constants for some collinear reactions / M. Ceotto, W.H. Miller. - In: THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS. - ISSN 0021-9606. - 120:14(2004), pp. 6356-6362. [10.1063/1.1666064]
Test of the quantum instanton approximation for thermal rate constants for some collinear reactions
M. CeottoPrimo
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2004
Abstract
Two variants of the recently developed quantum instanton (QI) model for calculating thermal rate constants of chemical reactions are applied to several collinear atom–diatom reactions with various skew angles. The results show that the original QI version of the model is consistently more accurate than the "simplest" quantum instanton version (both being applied here with one "dividing surface") and thus to be preferred. Also, for these examples (as with other earlier applications) the QI results agree well with the correct quantum rates (to within ~20% or better) for all temperatures >200 K, except for situations where dynamical corrections to transition state theory (i.e., "re-crossing" dynamics) are evident. (Since re-crossing effects are substantially reduced in higher dimensionality, this is not a cause for serious concern.) A procedure is also described which facilitates use of the METROPOLIS algorithm for evaluating all quantities that appear in the QI rate expression by Monte Carlo path integral methods.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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