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Accurate Polarization Energies from Force Fields

Yang, Dongliang (2010) Accurate Polarization Energies from Force Fields. Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

The distributed point polarizable water model (DPP2) [Ref 1] which was recently developed in our group, has explicit terms for induction, charge penetration, and charge transfer. It is a refinement of the DPP model [Ref 2] which was also developed in our group. The DPP2 model has been found to accurately describe the interaction energy in water clusters. In this work, we aim to further improve the accuracy of DPP2 in calculating the induction energy. There are two ways to model higher-order polarization effects, one is through distributed atomic dipole polarizabilities, the other is through single-center expansion with higher multipoles. We developed a fitting method which can map the distributed dipole polarizabilities into the dipole-dipole (α), dipole-quadrupole (A) and quadrupole-quadruple (C) polarizabilities. DPP2 uses three distributed atomic polarizabilities〖 α〗_O,α_H1,α_H2 which are located on oxygen and hydrogen atoms to describe induction effects. We show that the A and C values associated with the DPP2 model differ appreciably from the results of high level ab-inito methods [Ref 3, 4, 5, 25]. We have explored several strategies for improving on the DPP2 results. We describe a 4-site polarizable model, in which we split the polarizability of oxygen onto its two lone-pair sites, and which gives results in good agreement with the ab-initio calculations.


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Item Type: University of Pittsburgh ETD
Status: Unpublished
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Yang, Dongliangyangdd916@gmail.com
ETD Committee:
TitleMemberEmail AddressPitt UsernameORCID
Committee ChairJordan, Kennethjordan@pitt.eduJORDAN
Committee MemberHutchison, Geoffreygeoffh@pitt.eduGEOFFH
Committee MemberCoalson, Robcoalson@pitt.eduCOALSON
Date: 20 September 2010
Date Type: Completion
Defense Date: 6 August 2010
Approval Date: 20 September 2010
Submission Date: 21 July 2010
Access Restriction: No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately.
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Schools and Programs: Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Chemistry
Degree: MS - Master of Science
Thesis Type: Master's Thesis
Refereed: Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords: DPP2; quadrupole-quadrupole polarizability; water; distributed polarizabilities; single center expansion; multivariant regression
Other ID: http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-07212010-184327/, etd-07212010-184327
Date Deposited: 10 Nov 2011 19:52
Last Modified: 15 Nov 2016 13:46
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/8494

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