High-Dimensional Atomistic Neural Network Potentials for Molecule–Surface Interactions: HCl Scattering from Au(111)

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• 作者：Brian Kolb ; Xuan Luo ; Xueyao Zhou ; Bin JiangHua Guo
• 刊名：The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2, 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：8
• 期：3
• 页码：666-672
• 全文大小：454K
• ISSN：1948-7185

文摘

Ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations of molecule–surface scattering allow first-principles characterization of the dynamics. However, the large number of density functional theory calculations along the trajectories is very costly, limiting simulations of long-time events and giving rise to poor statistics. To avoid this computational bottleneck, we report here the development of a high-dimensional molecule–surface interaction potential energy surface (PES) with movable surface atoms, using a machine learning approach. With 60 degrees of freedom, this PES allows energy transfer between the energetic impinging molecule and thermal surface atoms. Classical trajectory calculations for the scattering of DCl from Au(111) on this PES are found to agree well with AIMD simulations, with ∼10⁵-fold acceleration. Scattering of HCl from Au(111) is further investigated and compared with available experimental results.