Publications associées à Energy minimization

Thermal transport of glasses via machine learning driven simulations

Accessing the thermal transport properties of glasses is a major issue for the design of production strategies of glass industry, as well as for the plethora of applications and devices where glasses are employed. From the computational standpoint, the che ...

Frontiers Media Sa2024

Characterization and prediction of peptide structures on inorganic surfaces

Dmitrii Maksimov

Interfaces between peptides and metallic surfaces are the subject of great interest for possible use in technological and medicinal applications, mainly since organic systems present an extensive range of functionalities, are abundant, cheap, and exhibit l ...

EPFL2022

Mass-Zero constrained dynamics and statistics for the shell model in magnetic field

Sara Bonella, Alessandro Coretti, David Daniel Girardier

In several domains of physics, including first principle simulations and classical models for polarizable systems, the minimization of an energy function with respect to a set of auxiliary variables must be performed to define the dynamics of physical degr ...

EDP Sciences, Springer2021

High Li-ion conductivity in tetragonal LGPO: A comparative first-principles study against known LISICON and LGPS phases

Nicola Marzari, Giuliana Materzanini, Aris Marcolongo, Leonid Kahle

We highlight fast Li-ion diffusion in hypothetical tetragonal Li10GeP2O12 (LGPO), as a counterpart to the well-known phases of orthorhombic (LISICON) LGPO, thio-LISICON, and tetragonal Li10GeP2S12 (LGPS). We use extended Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics i ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Quantum ESPRESSO toward the exascale

Nicola Marzari, Iurii Timrov, Roberto Car, Andrea Ferretti

Quantum ESPRESSO is an open-source distribution of computer codes for quantum-mechanical materials modeling, based on density-functional theory, pseudopotentials, and plane waves, and renowned for its performance on a wide range of hardware architectures, ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2020

Path-integral dynamics of water using curvilinear centroids

Michael John Willatt

We develop a path-integral dynamics method for water that resembles centroid molecular dynamics (CMD), except that the centroids are averages of curvilinear, rather than Cartesian, bead coordinates. The curvilinear coordinates are used explicitly only when ...

2019

CHD3 Dissociation on the Kinked Pt(210) Surface: A Comparison of Experiment and Theory

Rainer Beck, Ana Gutiérrez González, Helen Jane Chadwick

To be able to simulate activated heterogeneously catalyzed reactions on the edge and corner sites of nanoparticles, a method for calculating accurate activation barriers for the reactions is required. We have recently demonstrated that a semiempirical spec ...

2019

Functional Extrapolations to Tame Unbound Anions in Density-Functional Theory Calculations

Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi, Francesco Nattino

Standard flavors of density-functional theory (DFT) calculations are known to fail in describing anions, due to large self-interaction errors. The problem may be circumvented using localized basis sets of reduced size, leaving no variational flexibility fo ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Building a Consistent and Reproducible Database for Adsorption Evaluation in Covalent-Organic Frameworks

Berend Smit, Daniele Ongari, Christoph Leopold Talirz, Aliaksandr Yakutovich

We present a workflow that traces the path from the bulk structure of a crystalline material to assessing its performance in carbon capture from coal's postcombustion flue gases. This workflow is applied to a database of 324 covalent-organic frameworks (CO ...

2019

Investigation of the heterogeneously catalysed gas phase CO2 hydrogenation reaction: Development of analysis methods and reaction analysis on pristine metal catalysts

Robin Tobias Andreas Mutschler

The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the development of analysis methods that enable an improved investigation of the CO2 hydrogenation reaction such as quantitative mass spectrometry and infrared thermography. Furthermore, the contribution is in the ...

EPFL2019

Can Mutational Analysis Be Used To Assist Structure Determination of Peptides?

Thomas Rizzo, Liudmila Voronina, Valeriu Scutelnic, Chiara Masellis

Mutational analysis is widely used to study the relationship between sequence and structure of proteins and peptides. It is often assumed that substituting a proline with another amino acid "locks" the peptide bond in the trans conformation, allowing only ...

2018

Peptide-Cation Systems: Conformational Search, Benchmark Evaluation, and Force Field Parameter Adjustment Using Regularized Linear Regression

Markus Schneider

Metal cations often play an important role in shaping the three-dimensional structure of peptides. As an example, the model system AcPheAla5LysH+ is investigated in order to fully understand the forces that stabilize its helical structure. In particular, t ...

EPFL2018

Communication: Constrained molecular dynamics for polarizable models

Sara Bonella, Alessandro Coretti

A new algorithm to solve numerically the evolution of empirical shell models of polarizable systems is presented. It employs constrained molecular dynamics to satisfy exactly, at each time step, the crucial condition that the gradient of the potential with ...

2018

Simulating Energy Relaxation in Pump-Probe Vibrational Spectroscopy of Hydrogen-Bonded Liquids

Michele Ceriotti

We introduce a nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation approach, based on the generalized Langevin equation, to study vibrational energy relaxation in pump probe spectroscopy. A colored noise thermostat is used to selectively excite a set of vibration ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Solvent fluctuations and nuclear quantum effects modulate the molecular hyperpolarizability of water

Michele Ceriotti, Sylvie Roke, David Mark Wilkins, Andrea Grisafi, Gabriele Tocci, Chung-Wen Liang

Second-harmonic scattering (SHS) experiments provide a unique approach to probe noncentrosymmetric environments in aqueous media, from bulk solutions to interfaces, living cells, and tissue. A central assumption made in analyzing SHS experiments is that ea ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

cemff: A force field database for cementitious materials including validations, applications and opportunities

Paul Bowen, Sandra Caroline Galmarini, Aslam Kunhi Mohamed, David Geissbühler

This paper reviews atomistic force field parameterizations for molecular simulations of cementitious minerals, such as tricalcium silicate (C3S), portlandite (CH), tobermorites (model C-S-H). Computational techniques applied to these materials include clas ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

First-principles molecular dynamics simulations of proton diffusion in cubic BaZrO3 perovskite under strain conditions

Nicola Marzari

First-principles molecular dynamics simulations have been employed to analyse the proton diffusion in cubic BaZrO3 perovskite at 1300 K. A non-linear effect on the proton diffusion coefficient arising from an applied isometric strain up to 2 % of the latti ...

Springer2016

Ionic polarization-induced current–voltage hysteresis in CH3NH3PbX3 perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Peng Gao, Michael Saliba, Simone Meloni, Thomas Moehl, Yonghui Lee, Marius Franckevicius

CH3NH3PbX3 (MAPbX(3)) perovskites have attracted considerable attention as absorber materials for solar light harvesting, reaching solar to power conversion efficiencies above 20%. In spite of the rapid evolution of the efficiencies, the understanding of b ...

Nature Research2016

Molecular quantum mechanical gradients within the polarizable embedding approach-Application to the internal vibrational Stark shift of acetophenone

We present an implementation of analytical quantum mechanical molecular gradients within the polarizable embedding (PE) model to allow for efficient geometry optimizations and vibrational analysis of molecules embedded in large, geometrically frozen enviro ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Capture and Release of CO2 in Monoethanolamine Aqueous Solutions: New Insights from First-Principles Reaction Dynamics

Wanda Andreoni, Changru Ma, Fabio Pietrucci

Aqueous,monoethanolamine (MEA) solution is commonly used for post-combustion carbon capture via chemical absorption. Extensive research has been carried out to characterize both uptake and release of carbon dioxide (CO2), with the aim of improving process ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015