Quantum Atomic and Molecular Tunneling Systems QAMTS

The XIXth International Workshop
17 – 21 June 2019, Borovets, Bulgaria

Monday, 17th June 2019

9:00 – 9:15

Welcome by Peter Georgiev

 

9:15 – 10:00

Martin Quack                                                                

Fundamental and approximate symmetries, parity violation and tunnelling in chiral and achiral molecules

 

10:00 – 10:45

Eli Pollak , Jakob Petersen and Reuven Ianconescu

Quantum Reflection, Tunneling Flight Times and Anomalous Quantum Diffusion                                     

10:45 – 11:15                                   Coffee break

 

11:15 – 12:00

Brian Kendrick                                                             

Non-adiabatic quantum tunneling in photodissociation and reactive scattering

 

12:00 – 12:30

Tim Schleif, J.-M. Pérez, S. Henkel, M. Ertelt, W.Sander

Heavy-Atom Tunneling in the Cope rearrangement of 1,5‑Dimethylsemibullvalenes                                   

12:30  –  14:00                                      Lunch

 

14:00  –  14:45          

Vincent Moliner, S. Martí, K. Świderek, MA. Galmes, J.

Javier Ruiz-Pernía, Iñaki Tuñón, Rudolf K. Allemann

Towards the design of new biocatalysts from QM/MM computational studies on enzyme catalysis                         

 

14:45 –  15:30          

Nađa Došlić

Excited state H-transfer in prototypical hydrogen bonded systems                                                                           

15:30  – 16:00                                   Coffee break

 

16:00 –  16:45          

 Antonio Fernandez Ramos                                       

The OH + methanol reaction at ultracold temperatures: A tough nut to crack for theory

 

16:45 –  17:15          

 Christophe Vaillant

High-Accuracy Calculations of Tunneling Splittings in Water Clusters  

17:15  –                                       Free time and Dinner

Tuesday, 18th June 2019

 

9:00 – 9:45

Rich Saykally                                                                

Hydrogen Bond Network Rearrangement Dynamics in Water Clusters: Dramatic Effects of Librational Excitation on Hydrogen Bond Tunneling Rates

 

9:45 – 10:30

Johannes Kästner, J. Meisner, A. Löhle, T. Lamberts

Recent Developments in Instanton Theory to Simulate Tunneling Processes in Catalysis, Astrochemistry, and Biochemistry                                                                

10:30 – 11:00                                    Coffee break

11:00 – 11:30        

Wei Fang, J.Chen, X.-Z., A. Michaelides, J.O. Richardson

Molecular modeling of tunneling effects in adiabatic and nonadiabatic reactions                                         

 

11:30 – 12:00

 Alja Prah, Peter Ogrin, Janez Mavri and Jernej Stare

Electrostatics and tunneling in monoamine oxidase A enzyme                                                                         

12:30  –  14:00                                        Lunch

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Excursion, free time or the Wednesday afternoon talks

 

 

 

 

 

 

18:30 -

                                   Dinner

 

 

Wednesday, 18th June 2019                                                         

9:00 – 9:45

Tony Pham, Peter Georgiev, and Juergen Eckert  Quantum dynamical treatment along with analysis of the potential energy surface for rotational tunneling by bound H2 can lead to improved materials

 

9:45 – 10:30

S. Kannath, P. Adamczyk, D. Ferro-Costas, A.  Fernandez-Ramos, and Agnieszka Dybala-Defratyka

Effect of solvation on kinetic isotope effects on hydrogen abstraction from ethanol in aqueous solution                        

10:30 – 11:00

                              Coffee break

11:00 – 11:45

A.I. Kolesnikov, L.M. Anovitz, and S. Irle                

Tunneling behaviour of water molecules in bassanite

 

11:45 – 12:30

Claudio Nunes                                                             

Heavy-Atom Tunneling Reactions on the Slippery Potential Energy Surface of Arylnitrenes

12:30 – 14:00

                                     Lunch

 

14:00 – 14:45

Qiang Shi                                                              

Proton transfer reaction dynamics using the reduced quantum dynamics approach                                          

 

14:45 – 15:30

Katarzyna Świderek, V. Moliner, and A. Kohen

Primary and Enzyme Kinetic Isotope Effects in E. Coli Thymidylate Synthase.                                                    

 

15:30 – 16:00

Pierre Winter and Jeremy Richardson

A More Efficient Method for Thermal Instantons and Development of Microcanonical Rate Theory                      

16:00 – 16:30

                               Coffee break

 

16:30 – 17:15

Bill Poirier, M. Gonzalez, A. Aquino, and J. Eckert

Exact Quantum Dynamical Treatment of Hydrogen-material Interactions: Fe(H)2(H2)(PEtPh2)3 and [FeH(H2)(PH3)4]+    

 

17:15 – 17:45

Oliver Erhart, P. A. Georgiev and H. Krautscheid

Structural Details of the Desolvation Process and Adsorption of Dihydrogen in the Flexible Metal-Organic Framework [Cu(Me-4py-trz-ia)]                                                        

18:30 -

                                      Dinner

Thursday, 20th June 2019

 

9:00 – 9:45

Salvador Miret-Artes                                                  

On non-linear Schrödinger equations for open quantum systems

 

9:45 – 10:30

Marko T. Cvitaš, M. Eraković, J. O. Richardson

Ground-state tunnelling splittings in water pentamer using instantons                                                             22    

10:30 – 11:00                                       Coffee break

 

11:00 – 11:30         

Chiara Aieta, Fabio Gabas, Michele Ceotto

Parallel Implementation of Semiclassical Transition State Theory and its application to high-dimensional tunneling reactions                                                       

Thursday, 20th June 2019

 

11:30 – 12:15        

Sebastian Kozuch                                                      

Quantum Tunnelling Instability Computational Detection of Impossible and Transient Molecules

12:15 – 14:00                                           Lunch

 

 

14:00 – 14:45               

L. Li, N. Seifert, F. Xie, M. Heger, P. Raston, Y. Xu, and Wolfgang Jäger

Rotational spectroscopic signatures of tunnel effects in weakly bound complexes and clusters                            

 

14:45 – 15:15               

E. Valcheva, K. Lozanova, I. Asenova

Resonant Tunnelling in Short Period Strained AlN/GaN Superlattices                                                                  

15:15 – 15:45               

                                 Coffee Break

 

15:45 – 16:15               

G. Ch. Mellau                                                              

The pattern of eigenenergies at the saddle point region

 

16:15 – 16:45               

Eric R. Heller, L. Schreder, W. Fang,  J. O. Richardson

Concerted proton-transfer between water molecules in different environments via quantum tunneling            

 19:30                                                Conference Banquet  

    Remarks by Peter Georgiev, Juergen Eckert, Martin Quack