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Stereo-specific internally entangled roaming mechanism in the reaction of unstable B5 cluster with H

Takehiro Yonehara·Takahito Nakajima·Hikaru Kobayashi·King-Chuen Lin·Toshio Kasai
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A new type of, called stereo-specific entangled, roaming mechanism is presented in the reaction of structurally unstable B5 cluster with the hydrogen atom, by using the direct ab initio trajectory calculation with a practical level of DFT method using the rang-separated functional. In this mechanism, the light moiety, i.e. H roams around far from the B5 cluster caused by a stereo-specific energy transfer of translational energy to the cluster vibrational energy through the direct coupling due to the large amplitude motion of the unstable B5 cluster. We confirmed by the comparative computation that a clear change occur from the roaming trajectory to the repulsive trajectory, when we froze the vibrational motion of the B5 cluster. This drastic change of the trajectory due to the change between the structurally unstable B5 cluster and the frozen B5 cluster revealed the importance of kinematic energy transfer resulted in the soft-landing-like hydrogen absorption which manifested the present stereo-specific entangled roaming mechanism. The trajectory calculation revealed that the present new type of roaming mechanism is very sensitive to the azimuthal angle of the H atom attack, especially to the bisection of the B-B bond of the B5 cluster, where the energy flow from relative kinetic energy to the vibrational energy of the cluster efficiently takes place through the roaming trajectory driven due to the structural fluctuation of the B5 cluster.

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Takehiro Yonehara, Takahito Nakajima, Hikaru Kobayashi, King-Chuen Lin, Toshio Kasai. 2020-03-20. Stereo-specific internally entangled roaming mechanism in the reaction of unstable B5 cluster with H. https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09092

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