OpenMX Viewer: A web-based crystalline and molecular graphical user interface program.

The OpenMX Viewer (Open source package for Material eXplorer Viewer) is a web-based graphical user interface (GUI) program for visualization and analysis of crystalline and molecular structures and 3D grid data in the Gaussian cube format such as electron density and molecular orbitals. The web-based GUI program enables us to quickly visualize crystalline and molecular structures by dragging and dropping XYZ, CIF, or OpenMX input/output files, and analyze static/dynamic structural properties conveniently in a web browser. Several basic functionalities such as analysis of Mulliken charges, molecular dynamics, geometry optimization and band structure are included. In addition, based on marching cubes, marching tetrahedra and surface nets algorithms with Affine transformation, 3D isosurface techniques are supported to visualize electron density and molecular/crystalline orbitals in the cube format with superposition of a crystalline or molecular structure. Furthermore, the Band Structure Viewer is implemented for showing a band structure in a web browser. By accessing the website of the OpenMX Viewer, the latest OpenMX Viewer is always available for users to visualize various structures and analyze their properties without installations, upgrades, updates, registration, sign-in and terminal commands.

Realization of intrinsically broken Dirac cones in graphene via the momentum-resolved electronic band structure.

A way to represent the band structure that distinguishes between energy-momentum and energy-crystal momentum relationships is proposed upon the band-unfolding concept. This momentum-resolved band structure offers better understanding of the physical processes requiring the information of wave functions in momentum space and provides a direct connection to angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES) spectra. Following this approach, we demonstrate that Dirac cones in graphene are intrinsically broken in momentum space and can be described by a conceptual unit cell smaller than the primitive unit cell. This hidden degree of freedom can be measured by ARPES experiments as missing weight that is retrievable by investigating the effect of different polarized light. Having the energy-momentum relationship, we provide alternative understanding of the retrieved momentum intensity beyond the periodic-zone scheme, that is, the retrieved momentum intensity is assisted with the properties of final states, not from the Dirac cones directly. The revealed broken Dirac cones and momenta supplied by the lattice give interesting ingredients for designing advanced nanodevices.

Ab initio molecular dynamics study of ethylene adsorption onto Si(001) surface: short-time Fourier transform analysis of structural coordinate autocorrelation function.

The reaction dynamics of ethylene adsorption onto the Si(001) surface have been studied by combining density functional theory-based molecular dynamics simulations with molecular adsorption sampling scheme for investigating all kinds of reaction pathways and corresponding populations. Based on the calculated results, three possible reaction pathways--the indirect adsorption, the direct adsorption, and the repelling reaction--have been found. First, the indirect adsorption, in which the ethylene (C2H(4(ads))) forms the π-bonded C2H(4(ads)) with the buckled-down Si atom to adsorb on the Si(001) surface and then turns into the di-σ-bonded C2H(4(ads)), is the major reaction pathway. The short-time Fourier transform analysis of structural coordinate autocorrelation function is performed to further investigate the evolution of different vibrational modes along this indirect reaction pathway. This analysis illustrates that the Infrared (IR) inactive peak of the C=C stretching mode of the π-bonded C2 H4(ads) shifts to the IR inactive peak of the C-C stretching mode of di-σ-bonded C2H(4(ads)), which is in a good agreement with the IR inactive peak of the C=C stretching mode vanished in the vibrational spectrum at 150 K (Nagao et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 9922). Second, the direct adsorption, in which the di-σ-bonded C2H(4(ads)) is formed directly with the Si intradimer or the Si interdimer on the Si(001) surface, is the less significant reaction pathway. This reaction pathway leads to the C-C stretching mode and the C-H stretching mode of the di-σ-bonded C2H(4(ads)) appeared in the vibrational spectra at 48 and 150 K, respectively (Nagao et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 9922). Finally, the repelling reaction, in which the C2H(4(g)) first interacts with the Si dimer and then is repelled by Si atoms, is the least important reaction pathway. Consequently, neither the π-bonded C2H(4(ads)) nor the di-σ-bonded C2H(4(ads)) is formed on the Si(001) surface.

Chemical mechanism of surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectrum of pyridine adsorbed on Ag cluster: ab initio molecular dynamics approach.

The surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectrum of pyridine adsorbed on Ag20 cluster (pyridine-Ag20 ) at room temperature is calculated by performing ab initio molecular dynamics simulations in connection with a Fourier transform of the polarizability autocorrelation function to investigate the static chemical enhancement behind the SERS spectrum. The five enhanced vibrational modes of pyridine, namely, υ6a, υ1, υ12, υ9a, and υ8a, can be assigned and identified by using a new analytical scheme, namely, single-frequency-pass filter, which is based on a Fourier transform filtering technique. To understand the factors evoking the enhancement in the SERS spectrum, the dynamic properties of molecular structures and charges for both of the free pyridine and adsorbed pyridine are analyzed. The calculated results indicate that the vibrational amplitudes of adsorbed pyridine are enhanced due to both of the electron transfer from pyridine to Ag20 cluster and the softening of pyridine bond. In addition, the N-Ag stretching within pyridine-Ag20 will couple with these five vibrational modes of pyridine. Consequently, the electron transfer between pyridine and Ag20 cluster induced by different molecular vibrational modes prompts the redistribution of electron density of pyridine. These factors collectively cause the noticeable change in polarizability during molecular vibrations and hence result in the enhancement of Raman peaks.