Multi-site Reaction Dynamics Through Multi-fragment Density Matrix Embedding

Abstract

The practical description of disordered chemical reactions, where reactions involve multiple species at multiple sites, is presently challenge using correlated electronic structure methods. Here we describe the gradient theory of multi-fragment density matrix embedding theory, which potentially provides a minimal computational framework to model such processes at the correlated electron level. We present the derivation and implementation of the gradient theory, its validation on model systems and chemical reactions using density matrix embedding, and its application to a molecular dynamics simulation of proton transport in a small water cluster, a simple example of multi-site reaction dynamics.

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