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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

We study a number of filtering schemes for the reduction of the statistical error in non-adiabatic calculations by means of the quantum-classical Liouville equation. In particular, we focus on a scheme based on setting a threshold value on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-21 Daniel Uken , Alessandro Sergi , Francesco Petruccione

A theoretical justification of the empirical surface hopping method for the laser-driven molecular dynamics is given utilizing the formalism of the exact factorization of the molecular wavefunction [Abedi et al., PRL $\textbf{105}$, 123002…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 T. Fiedlschuster , J. Handt , E. K. U. Gross , R. Schmidt

Rare nonadiabatic reactions are a key component of many important molecular processes but are challenging to capture with direct dynamical simulations. In this paper, we combine our recently developed mapping approach to surface hopping…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Danial Ghamari , Jeremy O. Richardson

We develop a surface hopping algorithm based on frozen Gaussian approximation for semiclassical matrix Schr\"odinger equations, in the spirit of Tully's fewest switches surface hopping method. The algorithm is asymptotically derived from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-30 Jianfeng Lu , Zhennan Zhou

A new scheme is proposed for modeling molecular nonadiabatic dynamics near metal surfaces. The charge-transfer character of such dynamics is exploited to construct an efficient reduced representation for the electronic structure. In this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-24 Zuxin Jin , Joseph E. Subotnik

A novel mixed quantum-classical approach to simulating nonadiabatic dynamics of molecules at metal surfaces is presented. The method combines the numerically exact hierarchical equations of motion approach for the quantum electronic degrees…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-06 Samuel L. Rudge , Christoph Kaspar , Robin L. Grether , Steffen Wolf , Gerhard Stock , Michael Thoss

Quantum dynamics for arbitrary system are traditionally realized by time evolutions of wave functions in Hilbert space and/or density operators in Liouville space. However, the traditional simulations may occasionally turn out to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-20 Gombojav O. Ariunbold

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

Mixed-quantum-classical molecular dynamics simulation implies an effective measurement on the electronic states owing to continuously tracking the atomic forces.Based on this insight, we propose a quantum trajectory mean-field approach for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-08-08 Wei Feng , Luting Xu , Xin-Qi Li , Weihai Fang , YiJing Yan

In this paper a formalism for studying the dynamics of quantum systems coupled to classical spin environments is reviewed. The theory is based on generalized antisymmetric brackets and naturally predicts open-path off-diagonal geometric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-21 Alessandro Sergi

We investigate two well-known approaches for extending the fewest switches surface hopping (FSSH) algorithm to periodic time-dependent couplings. The first formalism acts as if the instantaneous adiabatic electronic states were standard…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-10-07 Zeyu Zhou , Hsing-Ta Chen , Abraham Nitzan , Joseph Eli Subotnik

Classical metastability manifests as noise-driven switching between disjoint basins of attraction and slowing down of relaxation, quantum systems like qubits and Rydberg atoms exhibit analogous behavior through collective quantum jumps and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Ya-Xin Xiang , Weibin Li , Zhengyang Bai , Yu-Qiang Ma

This study introduces the FSSH-2 scheme, a redefined and numerically stable adiabatic Fewest Switches Surface Hopping (FSSH) method for mixed quantum-classical dynamics. It reformulates the standard FSSH hopping probability without…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-19 Leonardo Araujo , Caroline Lasser , Burkhard Schmidt

We develop a Floquet surface hopping (FSH) approach to deal with nonadiabatic dynamics of molecules near metal surfaces subjected to time-periodic drivings from strong light-matter interactions. The method is based on a Floquet classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Yu Wang , Wenjie Dou

In the spirit of the fewest switches surface hopping, the frozen Gaussian approximation with surface hopping (FGA-SH) method samples a path integral representation of the non-adiabatic dynamics in the semiclassical regime. An improved…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Jianfeng Lu , Zhennan Zhou

The quantum-classical Liouville equation provides a description of the dynamics of a quantum subsystem coupled to a classical environment. Representing this equation in the mapping basis leads to a continuous description of discrete quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2010-11-17 Ali Nassimi , Sara Bonella , Raymond Kapral

An approach to the quantum-classical mechanics of phase space dependent operators, which has been proposed recently, is remodeled as a formalism for wave fields. Such wave fields obey a system of coupled non-linear equations that can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alessandro Sergi

The conditions under which quantum-classical Liouville dynamics may be reduced to a master equation are investigated. Systems that can be partitioned into a quantum-classical subsystem interacting with a classical bath are considered.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Robbie Grunwald , Raymond Kapral

The Landau--Zener (LZ) type classical-trajectory surface-hopping algorithm is applied to the nonadiabatic nuclear dynamics of the ammonia cation after photoionization of the ground-state neutral molecule to the excited states of the cation.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Andrey K. Belyaev , Wolfgang Domcke , Caroline Lasser , Giulio Trigila