Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Dynamical strengthening of covalent and non-covalent molecular interactions by nuclear quantum effects at finite temperature

  • Huziel E. Sauceda,
  • Valentin Vassilev-Galindo,
  • Stefan Chmiela,
  • Klaus-Robert Müller,
  • Alexandre Tkatchenko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20212-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The inclusion of nuclear quantum effects (NQE) in atomistic simulations of chemical systems is of key importance. Here the authors use machine learned force fields trained on coupled cluster reference data to show the dynamical strengthening of covalent and non-covalent molecular interactions induced by NQE.