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The Total Position Spread (TPS) tensor, defined as the second moment cumulant of the position ope... more The Total Position Spread (TPS) tensor, defined as the second moment cumulant of the position operator, is a key quantity to describe the mobility of electrons in a molecule or an extended system. In the present investigation, the partition of the TPS tensor according to spin variables is derived and discussed. It is shown that, while the spin-summed TPS gives information on charge mobility, the spin-partitioned TPS tensor becomes a powerful tool that provides information about spin fluctuations. The case of the hydrogen molecule is treated, both analytically, by using a 1s Slater-type orbital, and numerically, at Full Configuration Interaction (FCI) level with a V6Z basis set. It is found that, for very large inter-nuclear distances, the partitioned tensor growths quadratically with the distance in some of the low-lying electronic states. This fact is related to the presence of entanglement in the wave function. Non-dimerized open chains described by a model Hubbard Hamiltonian and...

La description des proprietes de la matiere a l'echelle atomique passe en principe par la res... more La description des proprietes de la matiere a l'echelle atomique passe en principe par la resolution de l'equation de Schrodinger. Cependant, cette equation est generalement bien trop compliquee a resoudre exactement et le defi releve par la chimie quantique depuis pres de 90 ans, aidee par l'essor de l'informatique depuis 60 ans, est de trouver des solutions approchees de cette equation. Dans cet article nous decrivons les principales methodes, devenues aujourd'hui standard, de resolutions de l'equation de Schrodinger basees sur la construction de fonctions d'onde approchees pour les systemes moleculaires. Nous decrivons aussi quelques developpements actuels qui visent a rendre ces methodes applicables a des systemes moleculaires de grande taille composes de milliers d'atomes.

The Astrophysical Journal

Atmospheric compositions can provide powerful diagnostics of formation and migration histories of... more Atmospheric compositions can provide powerful diagnostics of formation and migration histories of planetary systems. We investigate constraints on atmospheric abundances of H2O, Na, and K, in a sample of transiting exoplanets using the latest transmission spectra and new H2 broadened opacities of Na and K. Our sample of 19 exoplanets spans from cool mini-Neptunes to hot Jupiters, with equilibrium temperatures between ∼300 and 2700 K. Using homogeneous Bayesian retrievals we report atmospheric abundances of Na, K, and H2O, and their detection significances, confirming 6 planets with strong Na detections, 6 with K, and 14 with H2O. We find a mass–metallicity trend of increasing H2O abundances with decreasing mass, spanning generally substellar values for gas giants and stellar/superstellar for Neptunes and mini-Neptunes. However, the overall trend in H2O abundances, from mini-Neptunes to hot Jupiters, is significantly lower than the mass–metallicity relation for carbon in the solar sy...

SciPost Physics Core

In this work we investigate Wigner localization at very low densities by means of the exact diago... more In this work we investigate Wigner localization at very low densities by means of the exact diagonalization of the Hamiltonian. This yields numerically exact results. In particular, we study a quasi-one-dimensional system of two electrons that are confined to a ring by three-dimensional gaussians placed along the ring perimeter. To characterize the Wigner localization we study several appropriate observables, namely the two-body reduced density matrix, the localization tensor and the particle-hole entropy. We show that the localization tensor is the most promising quantity to study Wigner localization since it accurately captures the transition from the delocalized to the localized state and it can be applied to systems of all sizes.

Diamond and Related Materials

In this contribution we propose a novel and accurate intermolecular potential that can be used fo... more In this contribution we propose a novel and accurate intermolecular potential that can be used for the simulation of the azide anion confined inside carbon nanotubes of arbitrary size. The peculiarity of our approach is to include an explicit term, modeling the induction attractive contributions from the negatively charged azide ion, that can be generalized to other ions confined in carbon nanotubes of different size and length. Through a series of accurate DLPNO-CCSD(T) calculations, we show that this potential reproduces the ab initio interaction energy to within a few kcal/mol. The potential is implemented in a molecular dynamics program, with which we carried out illustrative simulations to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. At last, the guidelines provided by this investigation can be applied to build up force fields for many neutral/ionic molecular species confined within carbon

Advances in Condensed Matter Physics

This paper presents a tight binding and ab initio study of finite graphene nanostructures. The at... more This paper presents a tight binding and ab initio study of finite graphene nanostructures. The attention is focused on three types of regular convex polygons: triangles, rhombuses, and hexagons, which are the most simple high-symmetry convex structures that can be ideally cut out of a graphene layer. Three different behaviors are evidenced for these three classes of compounds: closed-shells for hexagons; low-spin open-shells for rhombuses; high-spin open-shells for triangles.

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

In this work we explore the effect of confining beryllium chains inside carbon nanotubes.

International Journal of Quantum Chemistry

We present a theoretical study of cyclacene molecules performed at tight-binding level. The orbit... more We present a theoretical study of cyclacene molecules performed at tight-binding level. The orbital energies and eigenvectors have been analytically computed, and exact expressions for the axial component of the total position spread and polarizability tensors have been obtained. In absence of dimerization, the system has a D nh symmetry, where n is the number of hexagonal units. The energy bands present no gap at the Fermi level, and to this fact it corresponds a diverging (per-electron) polarizability for n → ∞ in the direction of the system symmetry axis. The two (degenerate) components of the polarizability on the σ h symmetry plane, on the other hand, remain finite for n → ∞. The total position spread tensor presents a qualitatively different behavior, since all the three components of the position spread per electron remain finite for n → ∞. The results are analyzed and discussed for both axial and planar components separately as these are affected differently with respect to the increasing system size. Both dipole polarizability and total position spread have been computed using an ab initio approach for the smallest systems, in order to compare the analytical tight-binding expressions with a higher-level theory.

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Graphynes are porous derivatives of graphene that can be considered as ideal 2D nanofilters. Here... more Graphynes are porous derivatives of graphene that can be considered as ideal 2D nanofilters. Here we investigate by theoretical methods graphtriyne multilayers, proposing them as membranes featuring pores of subnanometer size suitable for CO 2 /N 2 separation and CO 2 uptake. The potential energy surfaces, representing the intermolecular interactions within the CO 2 /N 2 gaseous mixtures and between the graphtriyne layers and the molecules, have been formulated in an internally consistent way, by adopting potential models far more accurate than the traditional Lennard-Jones functions, routinely used to predict static and dynamical properties of matter. The new force fields so obtained, tested on accurate ab initio calculations, have been used to perform extensive molecular dynamics simulations of membrane selectivity and adsorption. The accuracy of the potentials granted a quantitative description of the interactions and realistic results for the dynamics under a wide range of conditions of applied interest, indicating a single layer permeation ratio CO 2 /N 2 of 4.25 (meaning that permeations of CO 2 are typically 4.25 times those of N 2). At low pressure, graphtriyne bilayer membranes exhibit good performances as a molecular sieving candidate for post-combustion CO 2 separation due to a high permeance and a relatively good selectivity. On the other hand, graphtriyne trilayer membranes present a relatively high interlayer adsorption selectivity and high CO 2 uptake. Such properties make these graphyne nanostructures versatile materials competitive with other carbon-based adsorbing membranes suitable to cope with post-combustion CO 2 emissions. Moreover, guidelines for the extension of the proposed 2 methodology to carbon nanostructures and other gaseous mixtures of relevance for atmosphere and combustion are also provided.

The journal of physical chemistry. A, Jan 21, 2018

We present an ab initio theoretical study of quasi one-dimensional beryllium chains, Be , from an... more We present an ab initio theoretical study of quasi one-dimensional beryllium chains, Be , from an electronic structure perspective for N = 3, 4,···, 12. In particular, linear and cyclic systems were compared by using high-quality coupled-cluster formalism. Both linear and cyclic species were found to be local minima on the corresponding potential energy surface, for all the considered values of N. The linear geometry is the most stable one only in the case of Be. Several indicators (energy gap, position spread tensor, locality of the molecular orbitals) clearly show that both linear and cyclic one-dimensional structures, unlike three-dimensional bulk beryllium, have a covalent insulating nature.

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The Journal of Physical Chemistry A

We have investigated the radicality and the vertical singlet-triplet energy gap of [n]cyclacenes ... more We have investigated the radicality and the vertical singlet-triplet energy gap of [n]cyclacenes (cyclic polyacenes) as a function of the system size for n even, from 6 to 22. The calculations are performed using the complete active space self-consistent field method and second-order n-electron valence perturbation theory. We present a systematic way for the selection of the active space in order to have a balanced description of the wavefunction as the size of the system increases. Moreover, we provide didactic insight into the failure of an approach based on a minimal active space. We find that the ground state is an open-shell singlet and its multireference character increases progressively with n. The singlet-triplet gap decreases as a function of the system size and approaches a finite positive value for the limit n → ∞. Finally, an analysis based on the one-particle reduced density matrix suggests a polyradical character for the largest cyclacenes.

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Journal of Molecular Modeling

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2008

The electronic structure and some important intra-molecular charge transfer parameters were inves... more The electronic structure and some important intra-molecular charge transfer parameters were investigated at CAS-SCF, MRCI, CAS+S and multi-reference localization levels of theory for purely organic mixed-valence molecules. In particular, a spiro cation has been taken as a model system. The potential energy surfaces of the ground and the lower three excited electronic states have been computed within a two-state model, at CAS-SCF using TZP basis for the spiro cation, and an adiabatic double-well potential has been obtained for the ground electronic state. Our analysis of the geometry through the reaction coordinate indicate that the spiro cation is a valence trapped bistable system. The effect of non-dynamical correlation, using a localized orbital approach, was found to be crucial for a quantitative description of the electronic structure and some important electron transfer parameters of these organic mixed-valence systems.

We performed new ab initio calculations with a core-polarization-potential treatment of the core-... more We performed new ab initio calculations with a core-polarization-potential treatment of the core-valence correlation for the ground and the two first 1&Pgr; excited states of the KRb dimer. Contrary to a previous result [Phys. Rev. A 51, 1929 (1995)], the potential curves obtained are now in perfect agreement with recent experimental studies. However, it is shown that the qualitative discussion given previously remains valid.

"Palladium" is the codename for an evolutionary set of features for the Microsoft® Wind... more "Palladium" is the codename for an evolutionary set of features for the Microsoft® Windows® operating system. When combined with a new breed of hardware and applications, these features will give individuals and groups of users greater data security, personal privacy, and system integrity. In addition, Palladium will offer enterprise customers significant new benefits for network security and content protection. This white paper: • Examines how Palladium satisfies the growing demands of living and working in an interconnected, digital world. • Catalogs some of the planned benefits offered by Palladium. • Summarizes the software components of Palladium. • Presents a suggested broad business approach to enable Palladium to succeed.

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Le but de cette these est d'etudier les proprietes de transition vibronique des molecules dia... more Le but de cette these est d'etudier les proprietes de transition vibronique des molecules diatomiques srh, krb, cah et naar. Apres un rappel theorique, nous donnons les details de l'implantation logicielle des methodes utilisees. L'utilisation de pseudopotentiels s'etant averee necessaire pour l'etude de certaines molecules (srh et krb), une premiere partie est consacree a l'implantation des pseudopotentiels dans notre logiciel asterix et a une etude comparative des pseudopotentiels courants. Pour srh, les constantes spectroscopiques des quatre premiers etats excites ont ete calculees a haut niveau d'ic ainsi que les coefficients d'einstein d'absorption stimulee entre ces etats. Les caracteristiques du double-puits pour l'etat b sont donnees et discutees. Pour krb, tous les etats excites depuis l'etat fondamental jusqu'a ceux dissociant en 3d(k)+5s(rb) ont ete determines. Les fonctions de moments dipolaires statiques et de transition de ces etats sont donnees et discutees. Le faible couplage des etats jumeaux (1) et (2) singulet pi est examine en detail. Les etats moleculaires de cah depuis l'etat fondamental jusqu'a ceux dissociant en 4p(ca)+1s(h) ont ete etudies a haut niveau d'ic en considerant un traitement de la correlation cur-valence. Les constantes spectroscopiques obtenues sont en tres bon accord avec l'experience. Les forces d'oscillateurs de toutes les transitions entre les trois premiers etats doublet sigma, deux premiers etats pi et le premier etat delta ont ete calculees au niveau mixte ic-rasscf. Le niveau vibrationnel du puits externe de l'etat b a ete clairement caracterise. Nous avons egalement etudie les premiers etats excites (x, a, b et c) du complexe de van der waals, naar. Les methodes utilisees sont identiques a celles utilisees pour cah. Cette etude a mis en evidence la forte sensibilite des resultats selon la methode utilisee. Nous rapportons finalement les resultats d'une etude preliminaire concernant les transitions cur-valence de l'ethylene

The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2015

The spin partition of the Total Position-Spread (TPS) tensor has been performed for one-dimension... more The spin partition of the Total Position-Spread (TPS) tensor has been performed for one-dimensional Heisenberg chains with open boundary conditions. Both the cases of a ferromagnetic (high-spin) and an anti-ferromagnetic (low-spin) ground-state have been considered. In the case of a low-spin ground-state, the use of alternating magnetic couplings allowed to investigate the effect of spinpairing. The behavior of the spin-partitioned TPS (SP-TPS) tensor as a function of the number of sites turned to be closely related to the presence of an energy gap between the ground-state and the first excited-state at the thermodynamic limit. Indeed, a gapped energy spectrum is associated to a linear growth of the SP-TPS tensor with the number of sites. On the other hand, in gapless situations, the spread presents a faster-than-linear growth, resulting in the divergence of its per-site value. Finally, for the case of a high-spin wave function, an analytical expression of the dependence of the SP-TPS on the number of sites n and the total spin-projection S z has been derived.

Advances in Condensed Matter Physics, 2015

This paper presents atight bindingandab initiostudy of finite zig-zag nanotubes of various diamet... more This paper presents atight bindingandab initiostudy of finite zig-zag nanotubes of various diameters and lengths. The vertical energy spectra of such nanotubes are presented, as well as their spin multiplicities. The calculations performed using thetight bindingapproach show the existence of quasi-degenerate orbitals located around the Fermi level, thus suggesting the importance of high-qualityab initiomethods, capable of a correct description of the nondynamical correlation. Such approaches (Complete Active Space SCF and Multireference Perturbation Theory calculations) were used in order to get accurate ground and nearest excited-state energies, along with the corresponding spin multiplicities.