The ground-state geometry of the NiC3 and NiC4 clusters is investigated using accurate ab initio methods and compared with predictions using the tight-binding molecular-dynamics ~TBMD! method as well as the density functional theory ~DFT! based SIESTA method. The ab initio methods predict the ground-state geometry of the NiC3 cluster to have a rhomboidal geometry, in agreement with the TBMD met...

The bonding configuration and the heat of adsorption of a furfural molecule on the Pd(111) surface were determined by ab initio density-functional-theory calculations. The dynamics of pure liquid water, the liquid-solid interface formed by liquid water and the Pd(111) surface, as well as furfural at the water-Pd interface, were investigated by ab initio molecular dynamics simulations at finite ...

For I-(H 2 O) 4 cluster, it has long believed that the C 4 symmetry structure is most stable isomer at low temperature. However, calculated vibrational spectra values using ab initio disagree with experimental values. Therefore, we calculated the structure of I-(H 2 O) 4 using extensive ab initio calculation. Hence, we found most stable isomer for I-(H 2 O) 4 at low temperature. The isomer has ...

We have performed ab initio calculations of the frequency shift induced by a static electric field on the cesium clock hyperfine transition. The calculations are used to find the frequency shifts due to blackbody radiation. Our result (δν/E = −2.26(2) × 10Hz/(V/m)) is in good agreement with early measurements and ab initio calculations performed in other groups. We present arguments against rec...

We survey approaches to nonrelativistic density functional theory (DFT) for nuclei using progress toward ab initio DFT for Coulomb systems as a guide. Ab initio DFT starts with a microscopic Hamiltonian and is naturally formulated using orbital-based functionals, which generalize the conventional local-density-plus-gradients form. The orbitals satisfy single-particle equations with multiplicati...

For helium-4, we present ab initio, semiclassical calculations of virial coefficients B n for n = 2, 3, 4, and 5 from 50 K to 1000 K. Using our values of B 4 and B 5 and the more accurate literature values of B 2 and B 3 , we argue that the ab initio virial equation of state is more accurate than recent, high-quality, densimeter measurements spanning the range {223 K < T < 500 K, p < 38 MPa}. T...

Similar to the importance of XRD in experiments, ab initio calculations, as a powerful tool, have been applied to predict the new potential materials and investigate the intrinsic properties of materials in theory. As a typical solid-solution material, the large degree of uncertainty of high-entropy alloys (HEAs) results in the difficulty of ab initio calculations application to HEAs. The prese...

Results obtained by computer modeling and simulation using ab-initio and molecular dynamics techniques for elucidation of structural and catalytic properties of the PdCoMo trimetallic compound are reported; a comparison of these results with those obtained by sputtering deposition onto a nafion membrane to be used as catalyst for a 1KW PEM fuel cell is made. Structure was calculated by ab-initi...