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We present an exact decomposition of the complete wavefunction for a system of nuclei and electrons evolving in a time-dependent external potential. We derive formally exact equations for the nuclear and electronic wavefunctions that lead…
We study the exact nuclear time-dependent potential energy surface (TDPES) for laser-induced electron localization with a view to eventually developing a mixed quantum-classical dynamics method for strong-field processes. The TDPES is…
The exact factorization of an electron-nuclear wavefunction [A. Abedi, N. T. Maitra, and E. K. U. Gross, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123002 (2010)] allows us to define the rigorous nuclear time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation (TDSE) with a…
It was recently shown [G. Albareda, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 083003 (2014)] that within the conditional decomposition approach to the coupled electron-nuclear dynamics, the electron-nuclear wave function can be exactly decomposed into…
We develop a novel approach to the coupled motion of electrons and ions that focuses on the dynamics of the electronic subsystem. Usually the description of electron dynamics involves an electronic Schr\"odinger equation where the nuclear…
It was recently shown that the exact potential driving the electron's dynamics in enhanced ionization of H$_2^+$ can have large contributions arising from dynamical electron-nuclear correlation, going beyond what any electrostatics-based…
Conventional theoretical and computational approaches to fully coupled quantum molecular dynamics, i.e. when both the electrons and nuclei are treated as quantum-mechanical particles, are impractical for all but the smallest chemical…
It was recently shown that the exact factorization of the electron-nuclear wavefunction allows the construction of a Schr\"odinger equation for the electronic system, in which the potential contains exactly the effect of coupling to the…
We present an exact single-electron picture that describes the correlated electron dynamics in strong laser fields. Our approach is based on the factorization of the electronic wavefunction as a product of a marginal and a conditional…
The exact time-dependent potential energy surface driving the nuclear dynamics was recently shown to be a useful tool to understand and interpret the coupling of nuclei, electrons, and photons, in cavity settings. Here we provide a detailed…
The exact exchange potential in time-dependent density-functional theory is defined as an orbital functional through the time-dependent optimized effective potential (TDOEP) method. We numerically solve the TDOEP integral equation for the…
The exact factorization of the time-dependent electron-nuclear wavefunction has been employed successfully in the field of quantum molecular dynamics simulations for interpreting and simulating light-induced ultrafast processes. In this…
The exact factorization (EF) approach to coupled electron-ion dynamics recasts the time-dependent molecular Schr\"odinger equation as two coupled equations, one for the nuclear wavefunction and one for the conditional electronic…
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)…
The recently developed exact factorization approach condenses all electronic effects on the nuclear subsystem into scalar and vector potentials that appear in an effective time dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation. Starting from this…
The Born-Oppenheimer electronic wavefunction $\Phi_R^{BO}(r)$ picks up a topological phase factor $\pm 1$, a special case of Berry phase, when it is transported around a conical intersection of two adiabatic potential energy surfaces in…
Fromager and Lasorne [Electron. Struct. 6 025002 (2024)] have recently derived an in-principle exact Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) of electrons and nuclei, where the nuclear density and the (so-called conditional) electronic…
Potential energy surfaces of electron dynamics (ePES) are constructed from a model of localized electron wave packets (eWP) with non-orthogonal valence-bond (VB) spin coupling and applied to quantum dynamics simulations of high harmonic…
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.…
If one-electron observables of a many-electron system are of interest, a many-electron dynamics can be represented exactly by a one-electron dynamics with effective potentials. The formalism for this reduction is provided by the Exact…