Comparison of molecular dynamics and variational transition-state-theory calculations of the rate constant for H-atom association with the diamond {111} surface - Archive ouverte HAL
Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015) Année : 1995

Comparison of molecular dynamics and variational transition-state-theory calculations of the rate constant for H-atom association with the diamond {111} surface

Kihyung Song
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William L. Hase
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K. C. Hass
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The quasiclassical trajectory method was used to study the dynamics and kinetics of H-atom association with a C-atom radical site on the diamond {111} surface. The calculations employed an analytic potential-energy surface derived previously [P. de Sainte Claire, P. Barbarat, and W. L. Hase, J. Chem. Phys. 101, 2476 (1994)] from high-level ab initio calculations. The trajectory rate constant calculated here of 1.7±0.3×1013 cm3 mol-1 s-1 for temperatures of 1000 and 2000 K is in excellent agreement with the one calculated previously on the same analytic potential-energy surface using canonical variational transition-state theory. For H atoms impinging perpendicularly and directly onto the C-atom radical site, the association probability is sensitive to the frequencies of the diamond lattice and the treatment of the lattice's zero-point energy. However, trajectories with this orientation make a negligible contribution to the thermal rate constant, which is found to be nearly insensitive to the lattice frequencies and zero-point energy. Trajectories, for which H atoms move toward the surface with a small angle relative to the surface plane and pass above the C-atom radical site before associating, make an important contribution to the association rate constant.
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Kihyung Song, Pascal de Sainte Claire, William L. Hase, K. C. Hass. Comparison of molecular dynamics and variational transition-state-theory calculations of the rate constant for H-atom association with the diamond {111} surface. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 1995, 52, pp.2949-2958. ⟨hal-00737355⟩
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