Quantum walks in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14463v2
• Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 09:10:31 GMT
• Title: Quantum walks in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
• Authors: Prateek Chawla and C. M. Chandrashekar
• Abstract summary: We present results of computations performed for some benzoid polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. We show that the quantum walk-based approach does correctly predict the reactive sites and stability order of the molecules considered.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Aromaticity is a well-known phenomenon in both physics and chemistry, and is responsible for many unique chemical and physical properties of aromatic molecules. The primary feature contributing to the stability of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons is the delocalised $\pi$-electron clouds in the $2p_z$ orbitals of each of the $N$ carbon atoms. While it is known that electrons delocalize among the hybridized $sp^2$ orbitals, this paper proposes quantum walk as the mechanism by which the delocalization occurs, and also obtains how the functional chemical structures of these molecules arise naturally out of such a construction. We present results of computations performed for some benzoid polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in this regard, and show that the quantum walk-based approach does correctly predict the reactive sites and stability order of the molecules considered.

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