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Volume 6, Issue 2
Decomposition of Molecular Motions into Translational, Rotational, and Intramolecular Parts by a Projection Operator Technique

F. Y. Hansen & H. Taub

Commun. Comput. Phys., 6 (2009), pp. 231-246.

Published online: 2009-06

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The motion of the atoms in a molecule may be described as a superposition of translational motion of the molecular center-of-mass, rotational motion about the principal molecular axes, and an intramolecular motion that may be associated with vibrations and librations as well as molecular conformational changes. We have constructed projection operators that use the atomic coordinates and velocities at any two times, t=0 and a later time t, to determine the molecular center-of-mass, rotational, and intramolecular motions in a molecular dynamics simulation. This model-independent technique facilitates characterization of the atomic motions within a system of complex molecules and is important for the interpretation of experiments that rely on time correlation functions of atomic and molecular positions and velocities. The application of the projection operator technique is illustrated for the inelastic neutron scattering functions and for the translational and rotational velocity autocorrelation functions.

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The motion of the atoms in a molecule may be described as a superposition of translational motion of the molecular center-of-mass, rotational motion about the principal molecular axes, and an intramolecular motion that may be associated with vibrations and librations as well as molecular conformational changes. We have constructed projection operators that use the atomic coordinates and velocities at any two times, t=0 and a later time t, to determine the molecular center-of-mass, rotational, and intramolecular motions in a molecular dynamics simulation. This model-independent technique facilitates characterization of the atomic motions within a system of complex molecules and is important for the interpretation of experiments that rely on time correlation functions of atomic and molecular positions and velocities. The application of the projection operator technique is illustrated for the inelastic neutron scattering functions and for the translational and rotational velocity autocorrelation functions.

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The motion of the atoms in a molecule may be described as a superposition of translational motion of the molecular center-of-mass, rotational motion about the principal molecular axes, and an intramolecular motion that may be associated with vibrations and librations as well as molecular conformational changes. We have constructed projection operators that use the atomic coordinates and velocities at any two times, t=0 and a later time t, to determine the molecular center-of-mass, rotational, and intramolecular motions in a molecular dynamics simulation. This model-independent technique facilitates characterization of the atomic motions within a system of complex molecules and is important for the interpretation of experiments that rely on time correlation functions of atomic and molecular positions and velocities. The application of the projection operator technique is illustrated for the inelastic neutron scattering functions and for the translational and rotational velocity autocorrelation functions.

F. Y. Hansen and H. Taub. (2009). Decomposition of Molecular Motions into Translational, Rotational, and Intramolecular Parts by a Projection Operator Technique. Communications in Computational Physics. 6 (2). 231-246. doi:
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