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A complete description of thermodynamic stabilities of molecular crystals

Predictions of relative stabilities of (competing) molecular crystals are of great technological relevance, most notably for the pharmaceutical industry. However, they present a long-standing challenge for modeling, as often minuscule free energy differenc ...

National Academy of Sciences2022

Importance of Nuclear Quantum Effects for NMR Crystallography

Michele Ceriotti, Venkat Kapil, Edgar Albert Engel

The resolving power of solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) crystallography depends heavily on the accuracy of computational predictions of NMR chemical shieldings of candidate structures, which are usually taken to be local minima in the potential ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Simulating the ghost: quantum dynamics of the solvated electron

Michele Ceriotti, Venkat Kapil, Piero Gasparotto, Jinggang Lan

The nature of the bulk hydrated electron has been a challenge for both experiment and theory due to its short lifetime and high reactivity, and the need for a high-level of electronic structure theory to achieve predictive accuracy. The lack of a classical ...

Nature Research2021

Uncertainty estimation for molecular dynamics and sampling

Michele Ceriotti, Venkat Kapil, Yongbin Zhuang, Kevin Rossi, Edgar Albert Engel, Federico Grasselli, Giulio Imbalzano

Machine-learning models have emerged as a very effective strategy to sidestep time-consuming electronic-structure calculations, enabling accurate simulations of greater size, time scale, and complexity. Given the interpolative nature of these models, the r ...

2021

Inexpensive modeling of quantum dynamics using path integral generalized Langevin equation thermostats

Michele Ceriotti, David Mark Wilkins, Venkat Kapil, Jinggang Lan

The properties of molecules and materials containing light nuclei are affected by their quantum mechanical nature. Accurate modeling of these quantum nuclear effects requires computationally demanding path integral techniques. Considerable success has been ...

2020

Nuclear Quantum Effects: Fast and Accurate

Venkat Kapil

Atomistic simulations are a bottom up approach that predict properties of materials by modelling the quantum mechanical behaviour of all electrons and nuclei present in a system. These simulations, however, routinely assume nuclei to be classical particles ...

EPFL2020

Accurate Description of Nuclear Quantum Effects with High-Order Perturbed Path Integrals (HOPPI)

Michele Ceriotti, Venkat Kapil

Imaginary time path-integral (PI) simulations that account for nuclear quantum effects (NQE) beyond the harmonic approximation are increasingly employed together with modern electronic-structure calculations. Existing PI methods are applicable to molecules ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Assessment of Approximate Methods for Anharmonic Free Energies

Michele Ceriotti, Venkat Kapil, Edgar Albert Engel, Mariana Rossi Carvalho

Quantitative evaluation of the thermodynamic properties of materials—most notably their stability, as measured by the free energy—must take into account the role of thermal and zero-point energy fluctuations. While these effects can easily be estimated wit ...

2019

Barely porous organic cages for hydrogen isotope separation

Michele Ceriotti, Venkat Kapil, Sanggyu Chong, Ming Liu

The separation of hydrogen isotopes for applications such as nuclear fusion is a major challenge. Current technologies are energy intensive and inefficient. Nanoporous materials have the potential to separate hydrogen isotopes by kinetic quantum sieving, b ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2019

i-PI 2.0: A universal force engine for advanced molecular simulations

Michele Ceriotti, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, David Mark Wilkins, Bingqing Cheng, Venkat Kapil, Riccardo Petraglia, Gareth Aneurin Tribello, Benjamin Aaron Helfrecht, Mariana Rossi Carvalho, Robert Horst Meissner

Progress in the atomic-scale modeling of matter over the past decade has been tremendous. This progress has been brought about by improvements in methods for evaluating interatomic forces that work by either solving the electronic structure problem explici ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019