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Hannes Jónsson - Professor
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School of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Hannes Jónsson
Íslenska
Professor
Adjunkt Professor at Brown University and at Aalto University (research)
Location
VR-3 / V03-212
Phone
525 - 0000
8923560
Email
hj [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Physical Sciences
Website
https://hj.hi.is/indexE.html
Published Work
Hannes Jónsson - published work
Curriculum Vitae
Hannes Jónsson - Curriculum Vitae
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8285-5421
Research portal – Hannes Jónsson
Courses 2024 - 2025
EFN612M - Molecular spectroscopy and reaction dynamics
EFN010F - Molecular spectroscopy and reaction dynamics
EFN307G - Thermodynamics and Introduction to Statistical Mechanics
EFN315G - Thermodynamics and Introduction to Statistical Mechanics V
Collaboration
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Education
1988
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Nýdoktor
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1985
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Ph.D.
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1980
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Professional Experience
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Published works
2024
GPAW
Journal of Chemical Physics
Doping-Induced Enhancement of Hydrogen Evolution at MoS
2
Electrodes
ChemPhysChem
Evidence of Sharp Transitions between Octahedral and Capped Trigonal Prism States of the Solvation Shell of the Aqueous Fe
3+
Ion
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Improved Initialization of Optimal Path Calculations Using Sequential Traversal over the Image-Dependent Pair Potential Surface
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Single-Atom Substituents in Copper Surfaces May Adsorb Multiple CO Molecules
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Characterization of Deformational Isomerization Potential and Interconversion Dynamics with Ultrafast X-ray Solution Scattering
Journal of the American Chemical Society
2023
A general-purpose machine learning Pt interatomic potential for an accurate description of bulk, surfaces, and nanoparticles
Journal of Chemical Physics
Is the doped MoS
2
basal plane an efficient hydrogen evolution catalyst? Calculations of voltage-dependent activation energy
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Orbital-optimized density functional calculations of molecular Rydberg excited states with real space grid representation and self-interaction correction
Journal of Chemical Physics
Electronic excitations of the charged nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond obtained using time-independent variational density functional calculations
SciPost Physics
On the Challenge of Obtaining an Accurate Solvation Energy Estimate in Simulations of Electrocatalysis
Topics in Catalysis
Stability of hopfions in bulk magnets with competing exchange interactions
Physical Review B
Electric field induced release of guest molecules from clathrate hydrates and its consequences for electrochemical CO
2
conversion
Chemical Physics
Stability of magnetic skyrmions
Physical Review B
Calculations of Excited Electronic States by Converging on Saddle Points Using Generalized Mode Following
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Sulfur-deficient edges as active sites for hydrogen evolution on MoS
2
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
2022
Polarizable Force Field for Acetonitrile Based on the Single-Center Multipole Expansion
Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Transferable Potential Function for Flexible H
2
O Molecules Based on the Single-Center Multipole Expansion
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Simulations of the Electrochemical Oxidation of Pt Nanoparticles of Various Shapes
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Variational Density Functional Calculations of Excited States
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Reassignment of magic numbers for icosahedral Au clusters
Nanoscale
Mechanism of Interlayer Transport on a Growing Au(111) Surface
Surfaces and Interfaces
Lifetime of skyrmions in discrete systems with infinitesimal lattice constant
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
Indirect mechanism of Au adatom diffusion on the Si(100) surface
Physical Review B
New Insights into the Volume Isotope Effect of Ice Ih from Polarizable Many-Body Potentials
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation Studies of the Shape of Islands on Close-Packed Surfaces
Journal of the Electrochemical Society
2021
Method for Calculating Excited Electronic States Using Density Functionals and Direct Orbital Optimization with Real Space Grid or Plane-Wave Basis Set
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Localized and Delocalized States of a Diamine Cation
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Nudged Elastic Band Method for Molecular Reactions Using Energy-Weighted Springs Combined with Eigenvector following
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Elastic Collision Based Dynamic Partitioning Scheme for Hybrid Simulations
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Fast and robust algorithm for energy minimization of spin systems applied in an analysis of high temperature spin configurations in terms of skyrmion density
Computer Physics Communications
Observation of Electric-Field-Induced Liberation of Guest Molecules from Clathrate Hydrate
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Direct energy minimization based on exponential transformation in density functional calculations of finite and extended systems
Computer Physics Communications
Mn dimer can be described accurately with density functional calculations when self-interaction correction is applied
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Competing HCOOH and CO Pathways in CO
2
Electroreduction at Copper Electrodes
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Assessment of the Accuracy of Density Functionals for Calculating Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Nitrogen-Doped Graphene
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
2020
Magnetic skyrmion annihilation by quantum mechanical tunneling
New Journal of Physics
Variational Density Functional Calculations of Excited States via Direct Optimization
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Stability of long-lived antiskyrmions in the Mn-Pt-Sn tetragonal Heusler material
Physical Review B
Minimum Mode Saddle Point Searches Using Gaussian Process Regression with Inverse-Distance Covariance Function
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Fully self-consistent calculations of magnetic structure within non-collinear Alexander-Anderson model
Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
Atomic and electronic structures of a vacancy in amorphous silicon
Physical Review B
Skyrmions in antiferromagnets
Journal of Applied Physics
NWChem
Journal of Chemical Physics
On the interplay of solvent and conformational effects in simulated excited-state dynamics of a copper phenanthroline photosensitizer
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Variational calculations of excited states via direct optimization of the orbitals in DFT
Faraday Discussions
Coupled quasimonopoles in chiral magnets
Physical Review B
Efficient optimization method for finding minimum energy paths of magnetic transitions
Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
2019
Effect of H adsorption on the magnetic properties of an Fe island on a W(110) surface
Physical Review B
Nudged Elastic Band Calculations Accelerated with Gaussian Process Regression Based on Inverse Interatomic Distances
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Density functional theory calculations and thermodynamic analysis of bridgmanite surface structure
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Erratum
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Spirit
Physical Review B
Assessment of constant-potential implicit solvation calculations of electrochemical energy barriers for h
2
evolution on pt
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Density Functional Theory Calculations and Thermodynamic Analysis of the Forsterite Mg
2
SiO
4
(010) Surface
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Addition to
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Polarizable Embedding with a Transferable H
2
O Potential Function II
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Polarizable Embedding with a Transferable H
2
O Potential Function I
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Simulations of the Oxidation and Degradation of Platinum Electrocatalysts
Small
R-NEB
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Elucidation of temperature-programmed desorption of high-coverage hydrogen on Pt(211), Pt(221), Pt(533) and Pt(553) based on density functional theory calculations
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Determination of the structure and properties of an edge dislocation in rutile TiO2
Acta Materialia
2018
Reply to
Nature Communications
Efficient evaluation of atom tunneling combined with electronic structure calculations
Journal of Chemical Physics
Reassignment of 'magic numbers' for Au clusters of decahedral and FCC structural motifs
Nanoscale
Lifetime of racetrack skyrmions
Scientific Reports
Exploring potential energy surfaces with saddle point searches
Skyrmions in racetracks: Annihilation mechanisms and lifetime
Scientific Reports
Duplication, Collapse, and Escape of Magnetic Skyrmions Revealed Using a Systematic Saddle Point Search Method
Physical Review Letters
Calculations of Product Selectivity in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
ACS Catalysis
Models of the energy landscape characterizing an element of a shakti spin lattice
Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
2017
Observation of Structural Wavepacket Motion
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Improved minimum mode following method for finding first order saddle points
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Atomic Scale Formation Mechanism of Edge Dislocation Relieving Lattice Strain in a GeSi overlayer on Si(001)
Scientific Reports
Energy surface and lifetime of magnetic skyrmions
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
The effect of temperature and external field on transitions in elements of kagome spin ice
New Journal of Physics
The effect of confinement and defects on the thermal stability of skyrmions
Physica B: Condensed Matter
Optimal atomic structure of amorphous silicon obtained from density functional theory calculations
New Journal of Physics
Calculations of the onset temperature for tunneling in multispin systems
Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
Truncated minimum energy path method for finding first order saddle points
Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
Long-Time scale simulations of tunneling-Assisted diffusion of hydrogen on Ice surfaces at low temperature
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Thermal stability of magnetic states in submicron magnetic islands
Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
Nanocluster structure deduced from AC-STEM images coupled to theoretical modelling
Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
Instantons describing tunneling between magnetic states at finite temperature
Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
Calculations of switching field and energy barrier for magnetic islands with perpendicular anisotropy
Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
A Real-Space Grid Implementation of QM/MM Electrostatic Embedding and Application to a Solvated Diplatinum Complex
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Grid-Based Projector Augmented Wave (GPAW) Implementation of Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics (QM/MM) Electrostatic Embedding and Application to a Solvated Diplatinum Complex
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Nudged elastic band calculations accelerated with Gaussian process regression
Journal of Chemical Physics
Energy surface and transition rates in a hexagonal element of spin ice
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
First-principles Green's-function method for surface calculations
Physical Review B
Magnetic exchange force microscopy
Nanoscale
Atomic scale simulations of heterogeneous electrocatalysis
Advances in Physics: X
Ultrafast X-ray absorption study of longitudinal-transverse phonon coupling in electrolyte aqueous solution
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Theory and Applications of Generalized Pipek-Mezey Wannier Functions
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Coherence in nonradiative transitions
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
2016
Global transition path search for dislocation formation in Ge on Si(001)
Computer Physics Communications
Effect of Complex-Valued Optimal Orbitals on Atomization Energies with the Perdew-Zunger Self-Interaction Correction to Density Functional Theory
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Charge localization in a diamine cation provides a test of energy functionals and self-interaction correction
Nature Communications
Minimum energy path for the nucleation of misfit dislocations in Ge/Si(0 0 1) heteroepitaxy
Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering
Self-Interaction Corrected Functional Calculations of a Dipole-Bound Molecular Anion
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Rate of thermal transitions in kagome spin ice
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Efficient dynamical correction of the transition state theory rate estimate for a flat energy barrier
Journal of Chemical Physics
Complex orbitals, multiple local minima, and symmetry breaking in perdew-zunger self-interaction corrected density functional theory calculations
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Minimum energy path calculations with Gaussian process regression
Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
Tip-surface interaction and rate of magnetic transitions
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Application to large systems
Faraday Discussions
Classical to quantum mechanical tunneling mechanism crossover in thermal transitions between magnetic states
Faraday Discussions
Faraday efficiency and mechanism of electrochemical surface reactions
Faraday Discussions
Qualitative insight and quantitative analysis of the effect of temperature on the coercivity of a magnetic system
AIP Advances
Crossover temperature for quantum tunnelling in spin systems
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Fundamentals
Faraday Discussions
Charge Localization in a diamine cation: A rigorous test of energy functionals for electronic systems
Nature Communications
Mechanism and activation energy of magnetic skyrmion annihilation obtained from minimum energy path calculations
Physical Review B
2015
Ultrafast structural pathway of charge transfer in n, n, n ′, n ′-tetramethylethylenediamine
Journal of Physical Chemistry A
Computational study of electrochemical CO
2
reduction at transition metal electrodes
Procedia Computer Science
Method for finding mechanism and activation energy of magnetic transitions, applied to skyrmion and antivortex annihilation
Computer Physics Communications
Long-Time-Scale Simulations of H
2
O Admolecule Diffusion on Ice Ih(0001) Surfaces
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Towards an optimal gradient-dependent energy functional of the PZ-SIC form
Procedia Computer Science
Improved tight-binding charge transfer model and calculations of energetics of a step on the rutile TiO
2
(110) surface
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Transition state theory approach to polymer escape from a one dimensional potential well
Journal of Chemical Physics
Magic-number gold nanoclusters with diameters from 1 to 3.5 nm
Nano Letters
Theoretical calculations of electrochemical reduction of CO2 at cu and cu-au nanoparticles
Erratum
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Erratum
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Erratum
Computational Materials Science
Removing external degrees of freedom from transition-state search methods using quaternions
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Calculations of Al dopant in α-quartz using a variational implementation of the Perdew-Zunger self-interaction correction
New Journal of Physics
2014
Pipek-mezey orbital localization using various partial charge estimates
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
EON
Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering
Effect of magnetic states on the reactivity of an FCC(111) iron surface
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Geothermal model calibration using a global minimization algorithm based on finding saddle points and minima of the objective function
Computers and Geosciences
Calculations of magnetic states and minimum energy paths of transitions using a noncollinear extension of the Alexander-Anderson model and a magnetic force theorem
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Adsorption of water dimer on platinum(111)
ACS Nano
Self-interaction corrected density functional calculations of Rydberg states of molecular clusters: N,N-dimethylisopropylamine
Journal of Physical Chemistry
Variational, self-consistent implementation of the Perdew-Zunger self-interaction correction with complex optimal orbitals
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Improved initial guess for minimum energy path calculations
Journal of Chemical Physics
Navigation on the energy surface of the noncollinear Alexander-Anderson model
Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
Molecular reordering processes on ice (0001) surfaces from long timescale simulations
Journal of Chemical Physics
Ultrafast structural dynamics in Rydberg excited N,N,N′,N′-tetramethylethylenediamine
Chemical Science
Catalytic activity of Pt nano-particles in H2 formation
Topics in Catalysis
Catalytic activity of Pt nano-particles for H
2
formation
Topics in Catalysis
Polymer escape from a confining potential
Journal of Chemical Physics
2013
Hydrogen adsorption and desorption at the Pt(110)-(1×2) surface
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Self-interaction corrected density functional calculations of molecular Rydberg states
Journal of Chemical Physics
Unitary optimization of localized molecular orbitals
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Potential energy surfaces and rates of spin transitions
Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie
A transferable H
2
O interaction potential based on a single center multipole expansion
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Molecular rearrangement reactions in the gas phase triggered by electron attachment
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Catalytic activity of platinum nanoparticles for H2 formation
Dynamics of basaltic glass dissolution - Capturing microscopic effects in continuum scale models
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
Erratum
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Effect of hydrogen adsorption on the magnetic properties of a surface nanocluster of iron
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Size and shape dependence of thermal spin transitions in Nanoislands
Physical Review Letters
2012
Local density of states analysis using Bader decomposition for N
2
and CO
2
adsorbed on Pt(110)-(1 × 2) electrodes
Journal of Chemical Physics
Optimization of functionals of orthonormal functions in the absence of unitary invariance
Harmonic transition-state theory of thermal spin transitions
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Path optimization with application to tunneling
A method for finding the ridge between saddle points applied to rare event rate estimates
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Development and evaluation of a thermodynamic dataset for phases of interest in CO
2
mineral sequestration in basaltic rocks
Chemical Geology
The effect of the Perdew-Zunger self-interaction correction to density functionals on the energetics of small molecules
Journal of Chemical Physics
Long-timescale simulations of diffusion in molecular solids
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Adsorption of water monomer and clusters on platinum(111) terrace and related steps and kinks II. Surface diffusion
Surface Science
Global Optimization of Reservoir Models by Mapping Out Object Function Minima and Saddle Points
Thirty-Seventh Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering at Stanford University
Simulated annealing with coarse graining and distributed computing
Geothermal model calibration using a global minimization algorithm based on finding saddle points as well as minima of the objective function
THOUGH Symposium 2012
Solar hydrogen production with semiconductor metal oxides
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Water adsorption and diffusion on Pt(111), kinks and steps
North American Catalysis Society Meeting, Detroit
The effect of coadsorbed water on the stability, configuration and interconversion of formyl (HCO) and hydroxymethylidyne (COH) on platinum (1 1 1)
Chemical Physics Letters
Reentrant mechanism for associative desorption
Physical Review Letters
A theoretical evaluation of possible transition metal electro-catalysts for N
2
reduction
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Multidimensional reactive transport modeling of CO
2
mineral sequestration in basalts at the Hellisheidi geothermal field, Iceland
International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
2011
Efficient sampling of saddle points with the minimum-mode following method
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
Simulation of surface processes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Importance of complex orbitals in calculating the self-interaction- corrected ground state of atoms
Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Importance of complex orbitals in calculating the self-interaction corrected ground state of atoms
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Experimental and theoretical study of the metastable decay of negatively charged nucleosides in the gas phase
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Parallel implementation of Î?-point pseudopotential plane-wave DFT with exact exchange
Journal of Computational Chemistry
2010
Modeling the electrochemical hydrogen oxidation and evolution reactions on the basis of density functional theory calculations
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Erratum
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Combined experimental and theoretical study on the nature and the metastable decay pathways of the thymine ion fragment [M-H]⎯.
Conference Series of the Symposium on Atomic, Cluster and Surface Physics
Adsorption of water monomer and clusters on platinum(111) terrace and related steps and kinks
Surface Science
Distributed implementation of the adaptive kinetic Monte Carlo method
Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
2009
The effect of co-adsorbed water on the stability and configuration of formyl (HCO) and hydroxymethylidyne (COH) intermediates on pt(111)
Finding mechanism of transitions in complex systems
Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
Ground state and metastable states of metallic magnetic nanostructures
Proceedings of the XIII symposium on Nanophysics and Nanoelectronics
Comparison of quantum dynamics and quantum transition state theory estimates of the H + CH4 reaction rate
Journal of Physical Chemistry A
Simulations of hydrogen diffusion at grain boundaries in aluminum
Acta Materialia
Long time scale simulation of a grain boundary in copper
New Journal of Physics
2008
Simulations of the fragmentation of the [V-H]
-
anions as formed upon DEA to L-valine
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Water interaction and diffusion on platinum surfaces
Theoretical study of kinks on screw dislocation in silicon
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Calculations of dislocation mobility using Nudged Elastic Band method and first principles DFT calculations
Philosophical Magazine
2007
Combined experimental and theoretical study on the nature and the metastable decay pathways of the amino acid ion fragment [M-H]
-
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Density functional theory calculations for the hydrogen evolution reaction in an electrochemical double layer on the Pt(111) electrode
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of Pd deposition and island growth on MgO(1 0 0)
Surface Science
2006
Predicting catalysis
Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Calculations of release temperature of hydrogen storage materials
Theoretical calculations of CH
4
and H
2
associative desorption from Ni(111)
Journal of Chemical Physics
Characterization of exciton self-trapping in amorphous silica
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
Pd diffusion on MgO(1 0 0)
Surface Science
A fast and robust algorithm for Bader decomposition of charge density
Computational Materials Science
2005
Silica glass structure generation for ab initio calculations using small samples of amorphous silica
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Hydrogen storage in magnesium based alloys
ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts
Optimization of hyperplanar transition states
Computer Physics Communications
Cleavage and recovery of molecular water in silica
Journal of Physical Chemistry B
What determines the sticking probability of water molecules on ice?
Physical Review Letters
Hydrogen storage in magnesium based alloys
ACS Division of Fuel Chemistry, Preprints
Small Pd clusters, up to the tetramer at least, are highly mobile on the MgO(100) surface
Physical Review Letters
2004
Origin of the overpotential for oxygen reduction at a fuel-cell cathode
Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Comparison of methods for finding saddle points without knowledge of the final states
Journal of Chemical Physics
2003
Finding possible transition states of defects in silicon-carbide and alpha-iron using the dimer method
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
An ab initio study of self-trapped excitons in α-quartz
Journal of Chemical Physics
Multiple time scale simulations of metal crystal growth reveal the importance of multiatom surface processes
Physical Review Letters
Multiple time scale simulations of metal crystal growth reveal the importance of multiatom surface processes
Physical Review Letters
2002
Theoretical studies of self-diffusion and dopant clustering in semiconductors
Physica Status Solidi (B) Basic Research
Dimer method long time scale simulations of surface growth
Simulations of dopant clustering in silicon
2001
Theoretical calculations of dissociative adsorption of CH
4
on an Ir(111) surface
Physical Review Letters
Simulations of long time scale dynamics using the dimer method
Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings
Theoretical investigations of diffusion and clustering in semiconductors
Diffusion and Island formation on the ice Ih basal plane surface
Computational Materials Science
Optimization of hyperplanar transition states
Journal of Chemical Physics
Migration of O vacancies in α-quartz
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Long time scale kinetic Monte Carlo simulations without lattice approximation and predefined event table
Journal of Chemical Physics
2000
Electric fields in ice and near water clusters
Journal of Chemical Physics
Theoretical studies of atomic-scale processes relevant to crystal growth
Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
Climbing image nudged elastic band method for finding saddle points and minimum energy paths
Journal of Chemical Physics
Self-trapped excitons at the quartz(0001) surface
Faraday Discussions
Diffusion of ge below the Si(100) surface
Physical Review Letters
Self-trapped excitons in quartz
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
Improved tangent estimate in the nudged elastic band method for finding minimum energy paths and saddle points
Journal of Chemical Physics
1999
A dimer method for finding saddle points on high dimensional potential surfaces using only first derivatives
Journal of Chemical Physics
Excess energy of grain-boundary trijunctions
Acta Materialia
Exploring the excited states of vacancy defects in silica
Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings
Elastic sheet method for identifying atoms in molecules
Journal of Chemical Physics
Multipole moments of water molecules in clusters and ice Ih from first principles calculations
Journal of Chemical Physics
1998
Molecular multipole moments of water molecules in ice Ih
Journal of Chemical Physics
1997
Parallel short-range molecular dynamics using the Ādhāra runtime system
Computer Physics Communications
Atomistic Determination of Cross-Slip Pathway and Energetics
Physical Review Letters
Dynamic-domain-decomposition parallel molecular dynamics
Computer Physics Communications
Generalized path integral based quantum transition state theory
Chemical Physics Letters
1996
Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Rotation of Si Ad-dimers on the Si(100) Surface
Physical Review Letters
Dimer and string formation during low temperature silicon deposition on Si(100)
Physical Review Letters
Thermal diffusion processes in metal-tip-surface interactions
Physical Review Letters
Investigation of the reliability of density functional methods
Journal of Chemical Physics
1995
Molecular dynamics simulations of a pressure-induced glass transition
The Journal of Chemical Physics
Si adatom binding and diffusion on the Si(100) surface
The Journal of Chemical Physics
An embedded atom method potential for the h.c.p. metal Zr
Philosophical Magazine B: Physics of Condensed Matter; Statistical Mechanics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Properties
Silicon ad-dimer binding on Si(100)
Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings
Atomic exchange processes in sputter deposition of Pt on Pt(111)
Surface Science
Atomic structure of β-SiC(100) surfaces
Surface Science
Reversible work transition state theory
Surface Science
Research-level computers and software in the undergraduate curriculum
Journal of Chemical Education
A hybrid decomposition parallel implementation of the Car-Parrinello method
Computer Physics Communications
1994
A parallel implementation of the Car-Parrinello method by orbital decomposition
Computer Physics Communications
Diffusion mechanisms relevant to metal crystal growth
Surface Science
Reversible work based quantum transition state theory
The Journal of Chemical Physics
Atomic structure of β-SiC( 100) surfaces
Surface Science
Low-temperature homoepitaxial growth of Pt(111) in simulated vapor deposition
Physical Review B
Structure and properties of strained crystalline multilayers
Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings
Systematic analysis of local atomic structure combined with 3D computer graphics
Computational Materials Science
Quantum and thermal effects in H2 dissociative adsorption
Physical Review Letters
1993
Structural changes accompanying densification of random hard-sphere packings
Physical Review E
1990
Erratum
The Journal of Chemical Physics
1989
Two- and three-body forces in the interaction of He atoms with Xe overlayers adsorbed on (0001) graphite
The Journal of Chemical Physics
1987
Hydrogen atom scattering from physisorbed overlayers. II. A different kind of resonance crossing
Surface Science
Summary Abstract
Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces and Films
He atom scattering from the graphite (0001) surface
The Journal of Chemical Physics
Low energy He atom scattering from Ag(110) and Ag(111)
Surface Science
1986
On the laterally averaged interaction potential between He atoms and the (0001) surface of graphite
Chemical Physics Letters
Many-body corrections to the intermolecular interaction probed with atom-surface scattering
Physical Review Letters
1985
General discussion
Faraday Discussions of the Chemical Society
Hydrogen atom scattering from physisorbed overlayers. I. Diffraction
Surface Science
General discussion
Faraday Discussions of the Chemical Society
Elastic scattering of light atoms from physisorbed overlayers
Faraday Discussions of the Chemical Society
1984
Structure and molecular properties of adsorbates at low coverage
Physical Review B
Light atom scattering from adsorbates at low coverage
Surface Science
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