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We benchmark a set of quantum-chemistry methods, including multitrajectory Ehrenfest, fewest-switches surface-hopping, and multiconfigurational-Ehrenfest dynamics, against exact quantum-many-body techniques by studying real-time dynamics in…

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

The two-dimensional electron-nuclear Schr\"odinger equation using soft-core Coulomb potentials has been a cornerstone for modeling and predicting the behavior of one-active-electron diatomic molecules, particularly for processes where both…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Bo Y. Chang , Seokmin Shin , Vladimir S. Malinovsky , Ignacio R. Sola

The quantum mechanical motion of the atomic nuclei is considered over a single- or a multi-dimensional subspace of electronic states which is separated by a gap from the rest of the electronic spectrum over the relevant range of nuclear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Edit Matyus , Stefan Teufel

Superadiabatic dynamical density functional theory (superadiabatic-DDFT), a first-principles approach based on the inhomogeneous two-body correlation functions, is employed to investigate the response of interacting Brownian particles to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-23 S. M. Tschopp , H. D. Vuijk , J. M. Brader

An ab initio quantum-classical mixed scheme for the time evolution of electrode-device-electrode systems is introduced to study nuclear dynamics in quantum transport. Two model systems are discussed to illustrate the method. Our results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Claudio Verdozzi , Gianluca Stefanucci , Carl-Olof Almbladh

An accurate description of nonadiabatic dynamics of molecular species on metallic surfaces poses a serious computational challenge associated with a multitude of closely-spaced electronic states. We propose a mixed quantum-classical scheme…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Ilya G. Ryabinkin , Artur F. Izmaylov

We introduce a simple ansatz for the wavefunction of a many-body system based on coupled forward and backward-propagating semiclassical trajectories. This method is primarily aimed at, but not limited to, treating nonequilibrium dynamics in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-05-01 Shunsuke A. Sato , Aaron Kelly , Angel Rubio

We use the effective Hamiltonian that we recently fitted against the first 306 experimentally observed vibronic transitions of NO2 [J. Chem. Phys. 119, 5923 (2003)] to investigate the time domain nonadiabatic dynamics of this molecule on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Michaël Sanrey , Marc Joyeux

The present work focuses on the calculation of a non-adiabatic transition probability between two states which may or may not cross with each other and are coupled to each other by a moving $\delta$ function potential. Here, the time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-18 Diwaker , Aniruddha Chakraborty

Constructing an accurate approximation to nonadiabatic rate theory which is valid for arbitrary values of the electronic coupling has been a long-standing challenge in theoretical chemistry. Ring-polymer instanton theories offer a very…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Rhiannon A. Zarotiadis , Joseph E. Lawrence , Jeremy O. Richardson

Non-adiabatic effects play an important role in many chemical processes. In order to study the underlying non-adiabatic potential-energy surfaces (PESs), we present a locally-constrained density-functional theory approach, which enables us…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Joerg Behler , Bernard Delley , Karsten Reuter , Matthias Scheffler

A general theoretical framework is derived for the recently developed multi-state trajectory (MST) approach from the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation, resulting in equations of motion for coupled nuclear-electronic dynamics equivalent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Guohua Tao

Accurate description of nonadiabatic dynamics of molecules at metal surfaces involving electron transfer has been a longstanding challenge for theory. Here, we tackle this problem by first constructing high-dimensional neural network…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-05 Gang Meng , James Gardner , Wenjie Dou , Reinhard J. Maurer , Bin Jiang

The traditional approach to nuclear physics encodes phase shift information in a nucleon-nucleon (NN) potential, producing a nucleon-level interaction that captures the sub-GeV consequences of QCD. A further reduction to the nuclear scale…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 K. S. McElvain , W. C. Haxton

A new class of time-energy uncertainty relations is directly derived from the Schr\"odinger equations for time-dependent Hamiltonians. Only the initial states and the Hamiltonians, but neither the instantaneous eigenstates nor the full…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-28 Tien D. Kieu

We employ Non-equilibrium Green's functions (NEGF) to describe the real-time dynamics of an adsorbate-surface model system exposed to ultrafast laser pulses. For a finite number of electronic orbitals, the system is solved exactly and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 E. Boström , M. Hopjan , A. Kartsev , C. Verdozzi , C. -O. Almbladh

We consider a coupled system of Schr\"odinger equations, arising in quantum mechanics via the so-called time-dependent self-consistent field method. Using Wigner transformation techniques we study the corresponding classical limit dynamics…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-17 Shi Jin , Christof Sparber , Zhennan Zhou

In this article, we investigate Ehrenfest's theorem from the Dirac equation in a noncommutative phase-space where we calculate the time derivative of the position and the kinetic momentum operators for Dirac particles in interaction with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 Ilyas Haouam

The nonrelativistic quantum dynamics of a spinless charged particle in the presence of the Aharonov--Bohm potential in curved space is considered. We chose the surface as being a cone defined by a line element in polar coordinates. The…