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We present an approach for carrying out non-adiabatic molecular dynamics simulations of systems in which non-adiabatic transitions arise from the coupling between the classical atomic motions and a quasi-continuum of electronic quantum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Jerome Daligault , Dmitry Mozyrsky

In this work, we employ trajectory-based simulations to predict the electronic coherences created by nonadiabatic dynamics near conical intersections. The mapping approach to surface hopping (MASH) is compared with standard fewest-switches…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Daniele Furlanetto , Jeremy O. Richardson

The geometric phase (GP) is a fundamental quantum effect arising from conical intersections (CIs), with profound consequences for vibronic energy levels. Standard imaginary-time path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) based on the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Yu Zhai , Youhao Shang , Jian Liu

While the treatment of conical intersections in molecular dynamics generally requires nonadiabatic approaches, the Born-Oppenheimer adiabatic approximation is still adopted as a valid alternative in certain circumstances. In the context of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Jonathan I. Rawlinson , Cesare Tronci

Quantum technologies based on adiabatic techniques can be highly effective, but often at the cost of being very slow. Here we introduce a set of experimentally realistic, non-adiabatic protocols for spatial state preparation, which yield…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-31 Albert Benseny , Anthony Kiely , Yongping Zhang , Thomas Busch , Andreas Ruschhaupt

Examples of geometric phases abound in many areas of physics. They offer both fundamental insights into many physical phenomena and lead to interesting practical implementations. One of them, as indicated recently, might be an inherently…

We explore the simulation of conical intersections (CIs) on quantum devices, setting the groundwork for potential applications in nonadiabatic quantum dynamics within molecular systems. The intersecting potential energy surfaces of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Yuchen Wang , David A. Mazziotti

We develop a linear vibronic coupling (LVC) model for polyenes described by the extended Hubbard-Peierls Hamiltonian. This model is applied to trans-hexatriene to benchmark quantum-classical dynamics methods against fully quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Timothy N. Georges , Louis Summerley , Johan E. Runeson , William Barford

Geometric quantum computation is the idea that geometric phases can be used to implement quantum gates, i.e., the basic elements of the Boolean network that forms a quantum computer. Although originally thought to be limited to adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-16 Erik Sjöqvist , Vahid Azimi Mousolou , Carlo M. Canali

A first principles quantum formalism to describe the non-adiabatic dynamics of electrons and nuclei based on a second quantization representation (SQR) of the electronic motion combined with the usual representation of the nuclear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-11-06 Sudip Sasmal , Oriol Vendrell

Geometric phases accompanying adiabatic quantum evolutions can be used to construct robust quantum control for quantum information processing due to their noise-resilient feature. A significant development along this line is to construct…

Ehrenfest dynamics is a useful approximation for ab initio mixed quantum-classical molecular dynamics that can treat electronically nonadiabatic effects. Although a severe approximation to the exact solution of the molecular time-dependent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-24 Seonghoon Choi , Jiří Vaníček

Nonadiabatic geometric quantum computation (NGQC) and nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computation (NHQC) have been proposed to reduce the run time of geometric quantum gates. However, in terms of robustness against experimental control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Bao-Jie Liu , Yuan-Sheng Wang , Man-Hong Yung

Incorporating nuclear quantum effects into nonadiabatic dynamics remains a significant challenge. Herein we introduce new nonadiabatic dynamics approaches based on the recently developed constrained nuclear-electronic orbital (CNEO) theory.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Zhe Liu , Zehua Chen , Yang Yang

The geometric phase effect arises from the dependence on the nuclear coordinates in the electronic Hamiltonian, leading to sign changes of the electronic wave functions upon traversal of certain paths in nuclear configuration space. The…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Eirik F. Kjønstad , Henrik Koch

Nonadiabatic quantum interferences emerge whenever nuclear wavefunctions in different electronic states meet and interact in a nonadiabatic region. In this work, we analyze how nonadiabatic quantum interferences translate in the context of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Basile F. E. Curchod , Federica Agostini , E. K. U. Gross

Ab initio modeling of conical intersection dynamics is crucial for various photochemical, photophysical, and biological processes. However, adiabatic electronic states obtained from electronic structure computations involve random phases,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Xiaotong Zhu , Bing Gu

We develop a density matrix formalism to describe coupled electron-nuclear dynamics. To this end we introduce an effective Hamiltonian formalism that describes electronic transitions and small (quantum) nuclear fluctuations along a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-07 Eugene Stolyarov , Alexander White , Dmitry Mozyrsky

We extend correlated sampling from classical auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo to the quantum-classical (QC-AFQMC) framework, enabling accurate nuclear force computations crucial for geometry optimization and reaction dynamics. Stochastic…

Accelerating quantum dynamical simulations with quantum computing has received considerable attention but remains a significant challenge. In variational quantum algorithms for quantum dynamics, designing an expressive and shallow-depth…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Jingjing Li , Weitang Li , Xiaoxiao Xiao , Limin Liu , Zhendong Li , Jiajun Ren , Weihai Fang