Quantum mechanical atomic model

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The cluster model approach assumes that a limited number of atoms can be used to represent the catalyst active site. Ideally, one would like to include a few thousands atoms in the model so that the cluster boundary is sufficiently far from the cluster active site thus ensuring that edge effects are of minor importance and can be neglected. Unfortunately, the computational effort of an ab initio calculation grows quite rapidly with the number of atoms treated quantum mechanically and cluster models used in practice contain 20 to 50 atoms only. It is well possible that with the advent of the N-scaling methods " this number can dramatically increase. Likewise, the use of hybrid methods able to decompose a very large system in two subsets that are then treated at different level of accuracy, or define a quantum mechanical and a classical part, are also very promising. However, its practical implementation for metallic systems remains still indeterminate. 

The work being described in this chapter mostly took place from about 1913 to 1926. The development of our modem model of the atom—the quantum mechanical model—is a remarkable achievement in the history of science. Much of twenty-first century science and technology depends on the properties of atoms and molecules as described in the quantum mechanical model of the atom. 

Modeling and simulation of the coimection between structure, properties, fimctions and processing using atom-based quantum mechanics, molecular dynamics and macromolecular approaches. Simulations aims to incorporate phenomena at scales from quantum (0.1 mn), molecular (1 mn) and nanoscale macromolecular (10 mn) dimensions, to mesoscale molecular assemblies (100 run), microscale (1000 mn), and macroscale (> 1 pm). A critical aspect is bridging the spatial and temporal scales. 

A gas phase species with N atoms has 3N degrees of freedom associated with it. For a nonlinear molecule, three of these are translations and three are rotations (two, if linear). The remaining 3N - 6 (3N - 5, if linear) movements are the internal or normal modes of vibration for the species. The single vibration of a diatomic species can be modeled quantum mechanically in terms of a one-dimensional harmonic oscillator. Figure 3.4.1.1, giving the energy levels... 

The accuracy of the CSP approximation is, as test calculations for model. systems show, typically very similar to that of the TDSCF. The reason for this is that for atomic scale masses, the classical mean potentials are very similar to the quantum mechanical ones. CSP may deviate significantly from TDSCF in cases where, e.g., the dynamics is strongly influenced by classically forbidden regions of phase space. However, for simple tunneling cases it seems not hard to fix CSP, by running the classical trajectories slightly above the barrier. In any case, for typical systems the classical estimate for the mean potential functions works extremely well. 

In this paper, we consider the symplectic integration of the so-called Quantum-Classical Molecular Dynamics (QCMD) model. In the QCMD model (see [11, 9, 2, 3, 6] and references therein), most atoms are described by classical mechanics, but an important small portion of the system by quantum mechanics. This leads to a coupled system of Newtonian and Schrddinger equations. 

In contrast to the point charge model, which needs atom-centered charges from an external source (because of the geometry dependence of the charge distribution they cannot be parameterized and are often pre-calculated by quantum mechanics), the relatively few different bond dipoles are parameterized. An elegant way to calculate charges is by the use of so-called bond increments (Eq. (26)), which are defined as the charge contribution of each atom j bound to atom i. 

Even at 0 K, molecules do not stand still. Quantum mechanically, this unexpected behavior can be explained by the existence of a so-called zero-point energy. Therefore, simplifying a molecule by thinking of it as a collection of balls and springs which mediate the forces acting between the atoms is not totally unrealistic, because one can easily imagine how such a mechanical model wobbles aroimd, once activated by an initial force. Consequently, the movement of each atom influences the motion of every other atom within the molecule, resulting in a com-... 

Molecular dipole moments are often used as descriptors in QPSR models. They are calculated reliably by most quantum mechanical techniques, not least because they are part of the parameterization data for semi-empirical MO techniques. Higher multipole moments are especially easily available from semi-empirical calculations using the natural atomic orbital-point charge (NAO-PC) technique [40], but can also be calculated rehably using ab-initio or DFT methods. They have been used for some QSPR models. 

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