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The crossover from nonadiabatic to adiabatic electron transfer has been theoretically studied under a spin-boson model (dissipative two-state system) description. We present numerically exact data for the thermal transfer rate and the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Muehlbacher , R. Egger

A generalized formalism of the so-called non-adiabatic quantum molecular dynamics is presented, which applies for atomic many-body systems in external laser fields. The theory treats the nuclear dynamics and electronic transitions…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Kunert , Ruediger Schmidt

The molecular Schr\"odinger equation is rewritten in terms of non-unitary equations of motion for the nuclei (or electrons) that depend parametrically on the configuration of an ensemble of generally defined electronic (or nuclear)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-18 Guillermo Albareda , Heiko Appel , Ignacio Franco , Ali Abedi , Angel Rubio

We introduce a novel methodology for simulating the excited-state dynamics of extensive molecular aggregates in the framework of the long-range corrected time-dependent density-functional tight-binding fragment molecular orbital method…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Richard Einsele , Roland Mitrić

We present an efficient \textit{ab initio} algorithm for quantum dynamics simulations of interacting systems that is based on the conditional decomposition of the many-body wavefunction [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 083003 (2014)]. Starting with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Guillermo Albareda , Aaron Kelly , Angel Rubio

Non-adiabatic molecular dynamics (NAMD) simulations have become an indispensable tool for investigating excited-state dynamics in solids. In this work, we propose a general framework, N$^2$AMD which employs an E(3)-equivariant deep neural…

We introduce the correlation-efficient time-evolution (CETE) algorithm for simulating quantum many-body dynamics. CETE recasts each step of time evolution as a time-independent correlation problem: the ansatz begins from a mean-field single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Michael Rose , David A. Mazziotti

Nonadiabatic molecular dynamics (NAMD) is widely used to describe hot electron relaxation and nonradiative recombination processes, but high computational costs limit its application to large supercells. Here, we implement a nonadiabatic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Xiaoke He , Hsiao-Yi Tsai , Ziwei Chai , Junwen Yin , Zhongfei Xu , Li-Min Liu

We investigate detailed balance for a quantum system interacting with thermal radiation within mixed quantum-classical theory. For a two-level system coupled to classical radiation fields, three semiclassical methods are benchmarked: (1)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Hsing-Ta Chen , Tao E. Li , Abraham Nitzan , Joseph E. Subotnik

Simulating electron-ion dynamics using time-dependent density functional theory within an Ehrenfest dynamics scheme can be done in two ways that are in principle exact and identical: propagating time-dependent electronic Kohn-Sham equations…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-07-01 Lionel Lacombe , Neepa T. Maitra

Geometric integrators of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation conserve exactly many invariants of the exact solution. Among these integrators, the split-operator algorithm is explicit and easy to implement, but, unfortunately, is restricted to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Seonghoon Choi , Jiří Vaníček

This paper is focused on the transient dynamics of an adiabatic nano-electromechanical system (NEMS), consisting of a nano-mechanical oscillator coupled to a quantum dot. By numerically solving the nonlinear stochastic differential equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-14 M. Biggio , F. Cavaliere , M. Storace , M. Sassetti

The relaxation dynamics of correlated electron transport (ET) along molecular chains is studied based on a substantially improved numerically exact path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) approach. As archetypical model we consider a Hubbard chain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Muehlbacher , J. Ankerhold , A. Komnik

Correlated systems represent a class of materials that are difficult to describe through traditional electronic structure methods. The computational demand to simulate the structural dynamics of such systems, with correlation effects…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-06 Rishi Rao , Li Zhu

We introduce a novel computational framework for excited-states molecular quantum dynamics simulations driven by quantum computing-based electronic-structure calculations. This framework leverages the fewest-switches surface-hopping method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 Anthony Gandon , Alberto Baiardi , Pauline Ollitrault , Ivano Tavernelli

A novel treatment of non-adiabatic couplings is proposed. The derivation starts from the long-known, but not well-known, fact that the wave function of the complete system of elctrons and nuclei can be written, without approximation, as a…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikitas I. Gidopoulos , E. K. U. Gross

Following a recent proposal of L. Wang and D. Babikov, J. Chem. Phys. 137, 064301 (2012), we theoretically illustrate the possibility of using the motional states of a $Cd^+$ ion trapped in a slightly anharmonic potential to simulate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-14 Ludovic Santos , Yves Justum , Nathalie Vaeck , M. Desouter-Lecomte

A comprehensive description of molecular electron transfer reactions is essential for our understanding of fundamental phenomena in bio-energetics and molecular electronics. Experimental studies of molecular systems in condensed-phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-04 Frank Schlawin , Manuel Gessner , Andreas Buchleitner , Tobias Schaetz , Spiros S Skourtis

Quantum molecular dynamics requires an accurate representation of the molecular potential energy surface from a minimal number of electronic structure calculations, particularly for nonadiabatic dynamics where excited states are required.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Charles W. Heaps , David A. Mazziotti

We present a novel mixed quantum-classical approach to the coupled electron-nuclear dynamics based on the exact factorization of the electron-nuclear wave function, recently proposed in [A. Abedi, N. T. Maitra, and E. K. U. Gross, Phys.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ali Abedi , Federica Agostini , E. K. U. Gross