10.1021/acs.jpca.8b12011.s001
Mark DelloStritto
Mark
DelloStritto
Michael L. Klein
Michael
L. Klein
Eric Borguet
Eric
Borguet
Bond-Dependent Thole Model for Polarizability and
Spectroscopy
American Chemical Society
2019
SCAN
interaction model
dynamics simulations
Bond-Dependent Thole Model
TholeL model
TholeL model yields
interatomic distances
polarizabilitie
ground state structure
ab initio
Raman spectra
2019-06-12 20:15:04
Journal contribution
https://acs.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Bond-Dependent_Thole_Model_for_Polarizability_and_Spectroscopy/8266508
We present a new model for the calculation
of molecular polarizabilities
from effective atomic polarizabilities. This model is based on the
Thole modified dipole interaction model for molecular polarizabilities,
where the total polarizability is computed as a sum of effective atomic
polarizabilities modified by dipole–dipole interactions. We
extend this model by making the atomic polarizabilities explicit functions
of the interatomic distances, scaling them by the radius of the volume
an atom occupies in a molecule. We use the SCAN functional to show
that this model, denoted TholeL, yields accurate molecular polarizabilities
with little dependence on the training set. We also demonstrate that
the TholeL model yields accurate polarizabilities for configurations
far from the ground state structure for a wide range of molecules.
Finally, we show that the TholeL model can be used to generate accurate
Raman spectra for water, crystalline urea, and urea in water from
ab initio molecular dynamics simulations.