Simulating the ghost: quantum dynamics of the solvated electron

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    "publication_date": "Mar 18, 2021, 21:22:41", 
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      "Solvated Electron", 
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      "M\u00f8ller-Plesset Perturbation Theory", 
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        "type": "Journal reference", 
        "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-20914-0", 
        "doi": "10.1038/s41467-021-20914-0", 
        "citation": "J. Lan, V. Kapil, P. Gasparotto, M. Ceriotti, M. Iannuzzi, V. V. Rybkin, Simulating the Ghost: Quantum Dynamics of the Solvated Electron, Nature Communications 12, 766 (2021)."
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      {
        "givennames": "Jinggang", 
        "familyname": "Lan", 
        "affiliations": [
          "Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland"
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        "email": "jinggang.lan@uzh.ch"
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      {
        "givennames": "Venkat", 
        "familyname": "Kapil", 
        "affiliations": [
          "Laboratory of Computational Science and Modelling, Institute of Materials, Ecole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland"
        ], 
        "email": "vk380@cam.ac.uk"
      }, 
      {
        "givennames": "Piero", 
        "familyname": "Gasparotto", 
        "affiliations": [
          "Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science & Technology, 8600 D\u00fcbendorf, Switzerland"
        ], 
        "email": "piero.gasparotto@empa.ch"
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      {
        "givennames": "Michele", 
        "familyname": "Ceriotti", 
        "affiliations": [
          "Laboratory of Computational Science and Modelling, Institute of Materials, Ecole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland"
        ], 
        "email": "michele.ceriotti@epfl.ch"
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      {
        "givennames": "Marcella", 
        "familyname": "Iannuzzi", 
        "affiliations": [
          "Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland"
        ], 
        "email": "marcella.iannuzzi@chem.uzh.ch"
      }, 
      {
        "givennames": "Vladimir", 
        "familyname": "Rybkin", 
        "affiliations": [
          "Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland"
        ], 
        "email": "vladimir.rybkin@chem.uzh.ch"
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    "title": "Simulating the ghost: quantum dynamics of the solvated electron", 
    "description": "The nature of the bulk hydrated electron has been a challenge for both experiment and theory due to its short lifetime and high reactivity, and the need for a high-level of electronic structure theory to achieve predictive accuracy. The lack of a classical atomistic structural formula makes it exceedingly difficult to model the solvated electron using conventional empirical force fields, which describe the system in terms of interactions between point particles associated with atomic nuclei. Here we overcome this problem using a machine-learning model, that is sufficiently flexible to describe the effect of the excess electron on the structure of the surrounding water, without including the electron in the model explicitly. The resulting potential is not only able to reproduce the stable cavity structure but also recovers the correct localization dynamics that follow the injection of an electron in neat water. The machine learning model achieves the accuracy of the state-of-the-art correlated wave function method it is trained on. It is sufficiently inexpensive to afford a full quantum statistical and dynamical description and allows us to achieve accurate determination of the structure, diffusion mechanisms, and vibrational spectroscopy of the solvated electron."
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