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Overview

Bret Jackson is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Physics and Astronomy with a focus on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Additional areas of study include Materials Chemistry, Spectroscopy, and Condensed Matter Physics.

Their work covers several main topics including:

  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics
  • Quantum and electron transport phenomena
  • Spectroscopy and Laser Applications
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Surface and Thin Film Phenomena

Bret Jackson has contributed to multiple publications, notably appearing in key scientific journals such as:

  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Physical Review Research
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Chemical Physics
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

The following recent papers authored by Bret Jackson illustrate their research interests and outputs:

  • Direct and trapping-mediated pathways to dissociative chemisorption: CH4 dissociation on Ir(111) with step defects (2020) in The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • The trapping of methane on Ir(111): A first-principles quantum study (2021) in The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Quantum studies of methane-metal inelastic diffraction and trapping: The variation with molecular orientation and phonon coupling (2022) in Chemical Physics

Other notable papers in the same period but authored by different researchers in related fields include:

  • State-to-state methane-surface scattering as a probe of catalytic activity (2020) in Physical Review Research
  • Accurate Reaction Probabilities for Translational Energies on Both Sides of the Barrier of Dissociative Chemisorption on Metal Surfaces (2024) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Bret Jackson frequently collaborates with fellow researchers, including:

  • Jörn Werdecker
  • Bo-Jung Chen
  • Maarten E. van Reijzen
  • Azar Farjamnia
  • Rainer D. Beck

Best Publications

  • First-principles study of the structural and energetic properties of H atoms on a graphite (0001) surface

    Xianwei Sha;Bret Jackson

  • Adsorption of hydrogen and deuterium atoms on the (0001) graphite surface

    Thomas Zecho;Andreas Güttler;Xianwei Sha;Bret Jackson

  • A strategy for time dependent quantum mechanical calculations using a Gaussian wave packet representation of the wave function

    Shin-Ichi Sawada;Robert Heather;Bret Jackson;Horia Metiu

  • Methane dissociation and adsorption on Ni(111), Pt(111), Ni(100), Pt(100), and Pt(110)-(1×2): Energetic study

    Sven Nave;Ashwani Kumar Tiwari;Bret Jackson

  • A quantum mechanical study of recombinative desorption of atomic hydrogen on a metal surface

    Bret Jackson;Mats Persson

  • ATOMIC H ABSTRACTION OF SURFACE H ON SI : AN ELEY-RIDEAL MECHANISM ?

    D. D. Koleske;S. M. Gates;B. Jackson

  • Quantum studies of Eley–Rideal reactions between H atoms on a graphite surface

    Xianwei Sha;Bret Jackson;Didier Lemoine

  • Methane dissociation on Ni(111): a new understanding of the lattice effect.

    Ashwani Kumar Tiwari;Sven Nave;Bret Jackson

  • Eley–Rideal reactions between H atoms on metal and graphite surfaces: The variation of reactivity with substrate

    Bret Jackson;Didier Lemoine

  • Theoretical description of photochemical hole burning in soft glasses

    Bret Jackson;Robert Silbey

  • Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Calculations versus Quantum-State-Resolved Experiments on CHD3 + Pt(111): New Insights into a Prototypical Gas-Surface Reaction.

    Francesco Nattino;Hirokazu Ueta;Helen Chadwick;Maarten E. van Reijzen

  • Methane dissociation on Ni(111) and Pt(111): energetic and dynamical studies.

    Sven Nave;Bret Jackson

  • Flat surface study of the Eley–Rideal dynamics of recombinative desorption of hydrogen on a metal surface

    Mats Persson;Bret Jackson

  • Methane dissociation on Ni(111): the role of lattice reconstruction.

    Sven Nave;Bret Jackson

  • The temperature dependence of methane dissociation on Ni(111) and Pt(111): mixed quantum-classical studies of the lattice response.

    Ashwani Kumar Tiwari;Sven Nave;Bret Jackson

  • Eley-Rideal and hot-atom reaction dynamics of H(g) with H adsorbed on Cu(111)

    Stavros Caratzoulas;Bret Jackson;Mats Persson

  • The dissociative chemisorption of methane on Ni(100): Reaction path description of mode-selective chemistry

    Bret Jackson;Sven Nave

  • The dynamics of H2 dissociation on Ni(100): A quantum mechanical study of a restricted two‐dimensional model

    Bret Jackson;Horia Metiu

  • Effect of surface motion on the rotational quadrupole alignment parameter of D 2 reacting on Cu(111)

    Francesco Nattino;Cristina Díaz;Bret Jackson;Geert Jan Kroes

  • Dissociative chemisorption of methane on Ni and Pt surfaces: mode-specific chemistry and the effects of lattice motion.

    Sven Nave;Ashwani K. Tiwari;Bret Jackson

Frequent Co-Authors

Mats Persson
Mats Persson University of Liverpool
Horia Metiu
Horia Metiu University of California, Santa Barbara
Geert-Jan Kroes
Geert-Jan Kroes Leiden University
Daniel D. Koleske
Daniel D. Koleske Sandia National Laboratories
Bruce D. Kay
Bruce D. Kay Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Bjørk Hammer
Bjørk Hammer Aarhus University

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