<div>Dear friends,</div>
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<div>thank you for all the help.</div>
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<div>I see arrhenius formula is suitable for my question. But I am wondering how to determine the attempt rate for specific system?</div>
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<div>Do you think 300K is suitable for the reaction with activation energy of 0.2 eV? </div>
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<div>And in my case, the product state is lower than reactant state for about 0.4 eV, i.e. if the reaction happens, there is 0.6 eV barrier for</div>
<div>the product state to go back to the reactant state. Do you think the dynamical equilibria of the reaction could see in some ps simulation </div>
<div>of pw.x?</div>
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<div>best wishes,</div>
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<div>vega<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Nicola Marzari <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marzari@mit.edu">marzari@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">vega lew wrote:<br>> Dear all,<br>><br>> I used to perform NEB calculations to estimate the energy barrier for<br>> certain chemical reaction.<br>> The calculated activation barrier is about 0.2 eV. I want the see the<br>
> reaction process during some pico-second of CP calculations.<br>> Do you think the reaction could happen in such a short time? and what<br>> temperature is suitable for jumping over the saddle point?<br>><br>
> thank you for reading<br>><br>> best wishes,<br>><br>> vega<br><br><br></div>Hi Vega,<br><br>try to work this out by yourself, looking at the arrhenius formula ; put an<br>attempt rate comparable to say an optical phonon. But the answer is<br>
probably yes,<br>especially if you are a bit over room temperature (500-600K).<br><br> nicola<br><br><br>--<br>---------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Prof Nicola Marzari Department of Materials Science and Engineering<br>
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