M3C (Microcanonical Metropolis Monte-Carlo)

M3C is a general-purpose code, though its primary targets are those fragmentation processes that take place through non- radiative transitions, where their fragments remain together enough time such that the excess of energy becomes randomly distributed over all internal degrees of freedom. M3C allows studying fragmentation processes in a large variety of systems irrespective of their composition and the nature of the chemical bonding between their elementary constituents.

In essence, the M3C consists in partitioning the mass, charge, energy, and momentum (linear and angular) of an excited molecular system (which are conserved in the microcanonical approach) among all accessible fragmentation channels with probabilities governed by considerations of maximum entropy. The key aspect of this methodology is that it provides a random way to move in phase space until a region of maximum entropy is reached, where the physical observables are computed. Here, only energy and entropy are responsible for the fate of the system.

The simplest calculation requires quantities such as geometries, electronic energies, and harmonic frequencies of all molecules included in the fragmentation model. This approach has already successfully been applied to the fragmentation of neutral and singly-charged carbon clusters, hydrogenated and nitrogenated carbon clusters, and small and medium-sized molecules in different physical scenarios or ionizing radiation.

Citing

1. Fully versus Constrained Statistical Fragmentation of Carbon Clusters and their Heteronuclear Derivatives.
   N. F. Aguirre, S. Díaz-Tendero, T. IdBarkach, M. Chabot, K. Béroff, M. Alcamí, and F. Martín.
   J. Chem. Phys. 150, 144301 (2019)
2. Furan Fragmentation in the Gas Phase: New Insights from Statistical and Molecular Dynamics Calculations.
   E. Erdmann, M. Łabuda, N. F. Aguirre, S. Díaz-Tendero, and M. Alcamí.
   J. Phys. Chem. A 122, 4153-4166 (2018)
3. Semiempirical breakdown curves of C2N(+) and C3N(+) molecules; application to products branching ratios predictions of physical and chemical processes involving these adducts.
   T. IdBarkach, T. Mahajan, M. Chabot, K. Béroff, N.F. Aguirre, S. Diaz-Tendero, T. Launoy, A. Le Padelle, L. Perrot, M.A. Bonnin, K.C. Le, F. Geslin, N. de Séréville, F. Hammache, A. Jallat, A. Meyer, E. Charon, T. Pino, T. Hamelin, and V. Wakelam
   Mol. Astrophysics 12, 25-32 (2018)
4. M3C: A Computational Approach To Describe Statistical Fragmentation of Excited Molecules and Clusters.
   N. F. Aguirre, S. Díaz-Tendero, P.-A. Hervieux, M. Alcamí, and F. Martín.
   J. Chem. Theory Comput. 13, 992-1009 (2017)
5. Structure, Ionization, and Fragmentation of Neutral and Positively Charged Hydrogenated Carbon Clusters: C_nH_m^q+ (n=1-5, m=1-4, q=0-3).
   J. P. Sánchez, N. F. Aguirre, S. Díaz-Tendero, F. Martín, and M. Alcamí.
   J. Phys. Chem. A 120, 588-605 (2016)

How to download

https://github.com/nfaguirrec/M3C

Authors

• Nestor F. Aguirre ( nfaguirrec@gmail.com )
• Sergio Díaz-Tendero ( sergio.diaztendero@uam.es )
• Paul-Antoine Hervieux ( paul-antoine.hervieux@ipcms.unistra.fr )
• Manuel Alcamí ( manuel.alcami@uam.es )
• Fernando Martín ( fernando.martin@uam.es )