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Theor Popul Biol
January 2025
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Institute for Intelligent Cooperating Systems, Universitatsplatz 2, 39106, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.
Although extensively studied, the maintenance of biodiversity remains a highly debated and investigated topic of contemporary research in ecology. Several studies have quantified the contributions of various coexistence mechanisms to biodiversity. However, often stochastic individual-level interactions are abstracted away, or mechanisms are studied in isolation.
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January 2025
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2BX, United Kingdom.
Engine deposits can reduce performance and increase emissions, particularly for modern direct-injection fuel delivery systems. Surfactants known as deposit control additives (DCAs) adsorb and self-assemble on the surface of deposit precursors to keep them suspended in the fuel. Here, we show how molecular simulations can be used to virtually screen the ability of surfactants to bind to polyaromatic hydrocarbons, comprising a major class of carbonaceous deposits.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Chem Phys
January 2025
Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Egerlandstr. 3, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany.
Methods based on density-functional theory usually treat open-shell atoms and molecules within the spin-unrestricted Kohn-Sham (KS) formalism, which breaks symmetries in real and spin space. Symmetry breaking is possible because the KS Hamiltonian operator does not need to exhibit the full symmetry of the physical Hamiltonian operator, but only the symmetry of the spin density, which is generally lower. Symmetry breaking leads to spin contamination and prevents a proper classification of the KS wave function with respect to the symmetries of the physical electron system.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Chem Theory Comput
January 2025
Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005-1892, United States.
Generalized Hartree-Fock (GHF) is a long-established electronic structure method that can lower the energy (compared to spin-restricted variants) by breaking physical wave function symmetries, namely and . After an exposition of GHF theory, we assess the use of GHF trial wave functions in phaseless auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (ph-AFQMC-G) calculations of strongly correlated molecular systems including symmetrically stretched hydrogen rings, carbon dioxide, and dioxygen. Imaginary time propagation is able to restore symmetry and yields energies of comparable or better accuracy than CCSD(T) with unrestricted HF and GHF references, and consistently smooth dissociation curves─a remarkable result given the relative scalability of ph-AFQMC-G to larger system sizes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHeliyon
July 2024
Department of Management Information Systems, Faculty of Data Science for Sustainable Growth, Jeju National University, Republic of Korea.
The escalating annual growth rate of electronic waste, commonly referred to as "e-waste," is currently between 3 % and 5 %, indicating a rapidly increasing solid waste stream. In 2019, South Korea generated 15.8 kg of e-waste per capita.
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