Suppression and enhancement of thermal chemical rates in a cavity

• Verfasst von: Sun, Jing [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Vendrell, Oriol [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Suppression and enhancement of thermal chemical rates in a cavity
• Verf.angabe: Jing Sun and Oriol Vendrell
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: 13 May 2022
• Umfang: 6 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 13.07.2022
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: The journal of physical chemistry letters
• Ort Quelle: Washington, DC : ACS, 2010
• Jahr Quelle: 2022
• Band/Heft Quelle: 13(2022), 20, Seite 4441-4446
• ISSN Quelle: 1948-7185
• DOI: doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c00974
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1810092760

Abstract

The observed modification of thermal chemical rates in Fabry-Perot cavities remains a poorly understood effect theoretically. Recent breakthroughs explain some of the observations through the Grote-Hynes theory, where the cavity introduces friction with the reaction coordinate, thus reducing the transmission coefficient and the rate. The regime of rate enhancement, the observed sharp resonances at varying cavity frequencies, and the survival of these effects in the collective regime remain mostly unexplained. In this Letter, we consider the cis-trans isomerization of HONO atomistically using an ab initio potential energy surface. We evaluate the transmission coefficient using the reactive flux method and identify the conditions for rate acceleration. In the underdamped, low-friction regime of the reaction coordinate, the cavity coupling enhances the rate with increasing coupling strength until reaching the Kramers turnover point. Sharp resonances in this regime are related to cavity-enabled energy redistribution channels.