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Improved sampling and validation of frozen Gaussian approximation with surface hopping algorithm for nonadiabatic dynamics

Chemical Physics 2016-10-12 v3 Numerical Analysis Computational Physics

Abstract

In the spirit of the fewest switches surface hopping, the frozen Gaussian approximation with surface hopping (FGA-SH) method samples a path integral representation of the non-adiabatic dynamics in the semiclassical regime. An improved sampling scheme is developed in this work for FGA-SH based on birth and death branching processes. The algorithm is validated for the standard test examples of non-adiabatic dynamics.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1606.05365,
  title  = {Improved sampling and validation of frozen Gaussian approximation with surface hopping algorithm for nonadiabatic dynamics},
  author = {Jianfeng Lu and Zhennan Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.05365},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

14 pages, 9 figures

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