Persistent Homology Metrics Reveal Quantum Fluctuations and Reactive Atoms in Path Integral Dynamics

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2021.624937" target="_blank" >10.3389/fchem.2021.624937</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Persistent Homology Metrics Reveal Quantum Fluctuations and Reactive Atoms in Path Integral Dynamics

Original language description

Nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) are known to impact a number of features associated with chemical reactivity and physicochemical properties, particularly for light atoms and at low temperatures. In the imaginary time path integral formalism, each atom is mapped onto a &quot;ring polymer&quot; whose spread is related to the quantum mechanical uncertainty in the particle&apos;s position, i.e., its thermal wavelength. A number of metrics have previously been used to investigate and characterize this spread and explain effects arising from quantum delocalization, zero-point energy, and tunneling. Many of these shape metrics consider just the instantaneous structure of the ring polymers. However, given the significant interest in methods such as centroid molecular dynamics and ring polymer molecular dynamics that link the molecular dynamics of these ring polymers to real time properties, there exists significant opportunity to exploit metrics that also allow for the study of the fluctuations of the atom delocalization in time. Here we consider the ring polymer delocalization from the perspective of computational topology, specifically persistent homology, which describes the 3-dimensional arrangement of point cloud data, (i.e. atomic positions). We employ the Betti sequence probability distribution to define the ensemble of shapes adopted by the ring polymer. The Wasserstein distances of Betti sequences adjacent in time are used to characterize fluctuations in shape, where the Fourier transform and associated principal components provides added information differentiating atoms with different NQEs based on their dynamic properties. We demonstrate this methodology on two representative systems, a glassy system consisting of two atom types with dramatically different de Broglie thermal wavelengths, and ab initio molecular dynamics simulation of an aqueous 4 M HCl solution where the H-atoms are differentiated based on their participation in proton transfer reactions.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10301 - Atomic, molecular and chemical physics (physics of atoms and molecules including collision, interaction with radiation, magnetic resonances, Mössbauer effect)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Chemistry [online]

ISSN

2296-2646

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

March 5

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

624937

UT code for WoS article

000630350700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85102961399