Theory of time-dependent nonequilibrium transport through a single molecule in a nonorthogonal basis set

2016 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miloš S. Dražić ◽  
Viktor Cerovski ◽  
Radomir Zikic
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamal Batra ◽  
Stefan Zahn ◽  
Thomas Heine

<p>We thoroughly benchmark time-dependent density- functional theory for the predictive calculation of UV/Vis spectra of porphyrin derivatives. With the aim to provide an approach that is computationally feasible for large-scale applications such as biological systems or molecular framework materials, albeit performing with high accuracy for the Q-bands, we compare the results given by various computational protocols, including basis sets, density-functionals (including gradient corrected local functionals, hybrids, double hybrids and range-separated functionals), and various variants of time-dependent density-functional theory, including the simplified Tamm-Dancoff approximation. An excellent choice for these calculations is the range-separated functional CAM-B3LYP in combination with the simplified Tamm-Dancoff approximation and a basis set of double-ζ quality def2-SVP (mean absolute error [MAE] of ~0.05 eV). This is not surpassed by more expensive approaches, not even by double hybrid functionals, and solely systematic excitation energy scaling slightly improves the results (MAE ~0.04 eV). </p>


1999 ◽  
Vol 579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoto Uimezawa ◽  
Susumu Saito

ABSTRACTWe study tile optical absorption spectra of Na clusters using the time-dependent density-functional theory with gradient correction. A jellium-sphere background model, which is free from basis-set incompleteness error and is suitable for the comparison of various theoretical methods, is adopted. For energies of surface-plasinon excitations governing profiles of photoabsorption spectra with huge oscillator strengths., the gradient correction by van Leeiiwen and Baerends with correct asymptotic behavior of the effective potential is found to show considerable improvement over the time-dependent local-density approximation.


2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 2346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esko Makkonen ◽  
Patrick Rinke ◽  
Olga Lopez-Acevedo ◽  
Xi Chen

We report a combined quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) molecular dynamics and time-dependent density functional (TDDFT) study of metal-mediated deoxyribonucleic acid (M-DNA) nanostructures. For the Ag + -mediated guanine tetramer, we found the maug-cc-pvdz basis set to be sufficient for calculating electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectra. Our calculations further show that the B3LYP, CAM-B3LYP, B3LYP*, and PBE exchange-correlation functionals are all able to predict negative peaks in the measured ECD spectra within a 20 nm range. However, a spurious positive peak is present in the CAM-B3LYP ECD spectra. We trace the origins of this spurious peak and find that is likely due to the sensitivity of silver atoms to the amount of Hartree–Fock exchange in the exchange-correlation functional. Our presented approach provides guidance for future computational investigations of other Ag + -mediated DNA species.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam J. M. Wollman ◽  
Charlotte Fournier ◽  
Isabel Llorente-Garcia ◽  
Oliver Harriman ◽  
Alex L. Hargreaves ◽  
...  

AbstractEpidermal growth factor (EGF) signaling regulates normal cell development, however EGF receptor (EGFR) overexpression is reported in several carcinomas. Despite structural and biochemical evidence that EGF-EGFR ligation activates signaling through monomer-dimer transitions, live cell mechanistic details remain contentious. We report single-molecule multispectral TIRF of human epithelial carcinoma cells transfected with fluorescent EGFR, and of CHO-K1 cells containing fluorescent EGFR and HER2, enabling super-resolved localization to quantify receptor architectures and spatiotemporal dynamics upon EGF ligation. Using inhibitors that block binding to EGFR, and time-dependent kinetics modelling, we find that pre-activated EGFR consist predominantly of preformed clusters that contain a mixture of EGFR and HER2, whose stoichiometry increases following EGF activation. Although complicated by EGFR internalization and recycling, our observation of an EGFR:EGF stoichiometry >1 for plasma membrane colocalized EGFR/EGF foci soon after activation may indicate preferential binding of EGF ligand to EGFR monomers, negative cooperativity and preferential ligated-unligated dimerization of monomers.


2009 ◽  
Vol 79 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
G. D. Scott ◽  
Z. K. Keane ◽  
J. W. Ciszek ◽  
J. M. Tour ◽  
D. Natelson

2013 ◽  
Vol 91 (9) ◽  
pp. 866-871 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Gómez-Coca ◽  
Eliseo Ruiz

The exchange coupling constants of a Mn14 complex constituted by two weakly coupled Mn7 moieties were calculated using two different density functional theory (DFT) approaches: the Perdew–Burke–Ernzerhof (PBE) functional with a numerical basis set and the hybrid Becke, three-parameter Lee–Yang–Parr (B3LYP) functional employed with a Gaussian basis set. The sign and relative strength of the exchange coupling constants calculated with both methods were consistent; as expected, the values calculated with the PBE functional were slightly overestimated, as corroborated by comparison with the experimental magnetic susceptibility curve. Both methods gave a ground spin configuration of S = 3/2 for the Mn7 moiety, which was weakly antiferromagnetically coupled with the other Mn7 fragment, leading to an S = 0 ground spin configuration for the entire Mn14 complex.


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