A Centroid Molecular Dynamics Study of Liquid Para-hydrogen and Ortho-deuterium

TitleA Centroid Molecular Dynamics Study of Liquid Para-hydrogen and Ortho-deuterium
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2004
AuthorsHone, TD, Voth, GA
JournalJ Chem Phys
Volume121
Pagination6412-22
Abstract

Centroid molecular dynamics (CMD) is applied to the study of collective and single-particle dynamics in liquid para-hydrogen at two state points and liquid ortho-deuterium at one state point. The CMD results are compared with the results of classical molecular dynamics, quantum mode coupling theory, a maximum entropy analytic continuation approach, pair-product forward- backward semiclassical dynamics, and available experimental results. The self-diffusion constants are in excellent agreement with the experimental measurements for all systems studied. Furthermore, it is shown that the method is able to adequately describe both the single-particle and collective dynamics of quantum liquids.

DOI10.1063/1.1780951