• 文献标题:   Communication: A combined periodic density functional and incremental wave-function-based approach for the dispersion-accounting time-resolved dynamics of He-4 nanodroplets on surfaces: He-4/graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   DE LARACASTELLS MP, STOLL H, CIVALLERI B, CAUSA M, VOLOSHINA E, MITRUSHCHENKOV AO, PI M
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  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   0021-9606 EI 1089-7690
  • 通讯作者地址:   CSIC
  • 被引频次:   28
  • DOI:   10.1063/1.4898430
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

In this work we propose a general strategy to calculate accurate He-surface interaction potentials. It extends the dispersionless density functional approach recently developed by Pernal et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 263201 (2009)] to adsorbate-surface interactions by including periodic boundary conditions. We also introduce a scheme to parametrize the dispersion interaction by calculating two- and three-body dispersion terms at coupled cluster singles and doubles and perturbative triples (CCSD(T)) level via the method of increments [H. Stoll, J. Chem. Phys. 97, 8449 (1992)]. The performance of the composite approach is tested on He-4/graphene by determining the energies of the low-lying selective adsorption states, finding an excellent agreement with the best available theoretical data. Second, the capability of the approach to describe dispersionless correlation effects realistically is used to extract dispersion effects in time-dependent density functional simulations on the collision of He-4 droplets with a single graphene sheet. It is found that dispersion effects play a key role in the fast spreading of the He-4 nanodroplet, the evaporation-like process of helium atoms, and the formation of solid-like helium structures. These characteristics are expected to be quite general and highly relevant to explain experimental measurements with the newly developed helium droplet mediated deposition technique. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.