Issue 31, 2020

Quasi-classical trajectory analysis with isometric feature mapping and locally linear embedding: deep insights into the multichannel reaction on an NH3+(4A) potential energy surface

Abstract

From the perspective of data analysis, finding and determining reaction paths from the quasi-classical trajectories of a polyatomic reaction system are equivalent to finding low-dimensional manifolds embedded in a high-dimensional space. Two manifold learning methods, isometric feature mapping and locally linear embedding, are applied to the analysis of reaction trajectories, which are calculated by the quasi-classical trajectory approach on a newly developed accurate quartet state NH3+(4A) potential energy surface for a multichannel reaction NH+ + H2 → N + H3+/NH2+ + H. The results show that isometric feature mapping can clearly identify different reaction paths from the reactive trajectories, and the locally linear embedding is better for the classification of non-reactive trajectories, and both of them facilitate quantitative analysis. With the help of trajectory analysis, the competition between the two H-atom abstraction reactions can be attributed to two different capture paths.

Graphical abstract: Quasi-classical trajectory analysis with isometric feature mapping and locally linear embedding: deep insights into the multichannel reaction on an NH3+(4A) potential energy surface

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
10 apr 2020
Accepted
23 jun 2020
First published
29 jun 2020

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020,22, 17460-17471

Quasi-classical trajectory analysis with isometric feature mapping and locally linear embedding: deep insights into the multichannel reaction on an NH3+(4A) potential energy surface

W. Shi, T. Jia and A. Li, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 17460 DOI: 10.1039/D0CP01941K

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