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We show how the dynamically nonlocal formulation of classical nuclear motion in the presence of quantal electronic transitions presented many years ago by Pechukas can be localized in time using time dependent perturbation theory to give an…
We present a means of studying rare reactive pathways in open quantum systems using Transition Path Theory and ensembles of quantum jump trajectories. This approach allows for elucidation of reactive paths for dissipative, nonadiabatic…
Chemical relaxation phenomena, including photochemistry and electron transfer processes, form a vigorous area of research in which nonadiabatic dynamics plays a fundamental role. Here, we show that for nonadiabatic dynamics with two…
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…
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…
The choice of the electronic representation in on-the-fly quantum dynamics is crucial. The adiabatic representation is appealing since adiabatic states are readily available from quantum chemistry packages. The nuclear wavepackets are then…
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…
We carried out extensive studies to examine the performance of the fewest-switches surface hopping method in the description of the ultrafast intersystem crossing dynamic of various singlet-triplet (S-T) models by comparison with the…
A new methodology of simulating nonadiabatic dynamics using frozen-width Gaussian wavepackets within the moving crude adiabatic representation with the on-the-fly evaluation of electronic structure is presented. The main feature of the new…
Nonadiabatic molecular dynamics is a key technique for investigating a broad range of photochemical and photophysical processes. Among the established approaches, surface hopping schemes are widely used and can be easily integrated with…
Trajectory-based mixed quantum-classical approaches to coupled electron-nuclear dynamics suffer from well-studied problems such as the lack of (or incorrect account for) decoherence in the trajectory surface hopping method and the inability…
Adequate simulation of non-adiabatic dynamics through conical intersection requires account for a non-trivial geometric phase (GP) emerging in electronic and nuclear wave-functions in the adiabatic representation. Popular mixed…
Fewest-switches surface hopping is studied in the context of quantum-classical Liouville dynamics. Both approaches are mixed quantum-classical theories that provide a way to describe and simulate the nonadiabatic quantum dynamics of…
We investigate a simple and robust scheme for choosing the phases of adiabatic electronic states smoothly (as a function of geometry) so as to maximize the performance of ab initio non-adiabatic dynamics methods. Our approach is based upon…
Surface hopping algorithms, as an important class of quantum dynamics simulation algorithms for non-adiabatic dynamics, are typically performed in the adiabatic representation, which can break down in the presence of ill-defined adiabatic…
Marcus--Hush theory explains electron transfer in terms of reorganization energies, driving forces, electronic couplings, and reduced free-energy or energy-gap descriptions. These descriptions do not by themselves determine when the…
The exact nuclear time-dependent potential energy surface arises from the exact decomposition of electronic and nuclear motion, recently presented in [A. Abedi, N. T. Maitra, and E. K. U. Gross, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123002 (2010)]. Such…
We implement a rare-event sampling scheme for quantifying the rate of thermally-activated nonadiabatic transitions in the condensed phase. Our QM/MM methodology uses the recently developed INAQS package to interface between an elementary…
We present a nonadiabatic classical-trajectory approach that offers the best of both worlds between fewest-switches surface hopping (FSSH) and quasiclassical mapping dynamics. This mapping approach to surface hopping (MASH) propagates the…
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…