Ab Initio Water Pair Potential with Flexible Monomers

作者:Jankowski Piotr*; Murdachaew Garold; Bukowski Robert; Akin Ojo Omololu; Leforestier Claude; Szalewicz Krzysztof
来源:Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2015, 119(12): 2940-2964.
DOI:10.1021/jp512847z

摘要

A potential energy surface for the water dimer with explicit dependence on monomer coordinates is presented. The surface was fitted to a set of previously published interaction energies computed on a grid of over a quarter million points in the 12-dimensional configurational space using symmetry-adapted perturbation theory and coupled-cluster methods. The present fit removes small errors in published fits, and its accuracy is critically evaluated. The minimum and saddle-point structures of the potential surface were found to be very close to predictions from direct ab initio optimizations. The computed second virial coefficients agreed well with experimental values. At low temperatures, the effects of monomer flexibility in the virial coefficients were found to be much smaller than the quantum effects.

  • 出版日期2015-3-26