New Full-Dimensional Reactive Potential Energy Surface for the H<sub>4</sub> System
Yang Liu, Pablo G. Jambrina, James F. E. Croft, N. Balakrishnan, F. J. Aoiz, Hua Guo
Abstract
As the most abundant molecule in the universe, collisions involving H 2 have important implications in astrochemistry. Collisions between hydrogen molecules also represent a prototype for assessing various dynamic methods for understanding fundamental few-body processes. In this work, we develop a new and highly accurate full-dimensional potential energy surface (PES) covering all reactive channels of the H 2 + H 2 system, which extends our previously reported H 2 + H 2 nonreactive PES [J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2021, 17, 6747] by adding 39,538 additional ab initio points calculated at the MRCI/AV5Z level in the reactive channels. The global PES is represented with high fidelity (RMSE = 0.6 meV for a total of 79,000 points) by a permutation invariant polynomial neural network (PIP-NN) and is suitable for studying collision-induced dissociation, single-exchange, as well as four-center exchange reactions. Preliminary quasi-classical trajectory studies on the new PIP-NN PES reveal strong vibrational enhancement of all reaction channels.