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Quantum mechanical correlation functions, maximum entropy analytic continuation, and ring polymer molecular dynamics
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Habershon, Scott, Braams, B. J. and Manolopoulos, D. E. (2007) Quantum mechanical correlation functions, maximum entropy analytic continuation, and ring polymer molecular dynamics. Journal of Chemical Physics , Vol. 127 (No. 17). p. 174108. doi:10.1063/1.2786451 ISSN 1089-7690.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2786451
Abstract
The maximum entropy analytic continuation (MEAC) and ring polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) methods provide complementary approaches to the calculation of real time quantum correlation functions. RPMD becomes exact in the high temperature limit, where the thermal time beta h tends to zero and the ring polymer collapses to a single classical bead. MEAC becomes most reliable at low temperatures, where beta h exceeds the correlation time of interest and the numerical imaginary time correlation function contains essentially all of the information that is needed to recover the real time dynamics. We show here that this situation can be exploited by combining the two methods to give an improved approximation that is better than either of its parts. In particular, the MEAC method provides an ideal way to impose exact moment (or sum rule) constraints on a prior RPMD spectrum. The resulting scheme is shown to provide a practical solution to the "nonlinear operator problem" of RPMD, and to give good agreement with recent exact results for the short-time velocity autocorrelation function of liquid parahydrogen. Moreover these improvements are obtained with little extra effort, because the imaginary time correlation function that is used in the MEAC procedure can be computed at the same time as the RPMD approximation to the real time correlation function. However, there are still some problems involving long-time dynamics for which the RPMD+MEAC combination is inadequate, as we illustrate with an example application to the collective density fluctuations in liquid orthodeuterium. (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Chemistry | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Chemical Physics | ||||
Publisher: | American Institute of Physics | ||||
ISSN: | 1089-7690 | ||||
Official Date: | November 2007 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol. 127 | ||||
Number: | No. 17 | ||||
Page Range: | p. 174108 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1063/1.2786451 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
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