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Fast nonadiabatic control protocols known as shortcuts to adiabaticity have found a plethora of applications, but their use has been severely limited to speeding up the dynamics of isolated quantum systems. We introduce shortcuts for open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-06 L. Dupays , I. L. Egusquiza , A. del Campo , A. Chenu

Classical density functional theory (DFT) provides an exact variational framework for determining the equilibrium properties of inhomogeneous fluids. We report a generalization of DFT to treat the non-equilibrium dynamics of classical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-09-06 Matthias Schmidt , Joseph M. Brader

There is currently much interest in the development of improved trajectory-based methods for the simulation of nonadiabatic processes in complex systems. An important goal for such methods is the accurate calculation of the rate constant…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-09-04 Jeremy O. Richardson , Michael Thoss

Nuclear quantum effects and non-Born--Oppenheimer effects play a vital role in many chemical and biological processes, motivating the incorporation of such effects into dynamical simulations. In real-time nuclear--electronic orbital…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Nicholas J. Boyer , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

In their famous paper Kohn and Sham formulated a formally exact density-functional theory (DFT) for the ground-state energy and density of a system of $N$ interacting electrons, albeit limited at the time by certain troubling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Miquel Huix-Rotllant , Mark E. Casida

Theoretical approaches to nonequilibrium many-body dynamics generally rest upon an adiabatic assumption, whereby the true dynamics is represented as a sequence of equilibrium states. Going beyond this simple approximation is a notoriously…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-15 Andrea Fortini , Daniel de las Heras , Joseph M. Brader , Matthias Schmidt

The time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is the leading computationally feasible theory to treat excitations by strong electromagnetic fields. Here the theory is applied to coherent optical phonon generation produced by intense…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 Y. Shinohara , S. A. Sato , K. Yabana , J. -I. Iwata , T. Otobe , G. F. Bertsch

The primary computational challenge when simulating nonadiabatic ab initio molecular dynamics is the unfavorable compute costs of electronic structure calculations with molecular size. Simple electronic structure theories, like…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Justin J. Talbot , Martin Head-Gordon , Stephen J. Cotton

The application of adiabatic protocols in quantum technologies is severely limited by environmental sources of noise and decoherence. Shortcuts to adiabaticity by counterdiabatic driving constitute a powerful alternative that speed up…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-12 Shuoming An , Dingshun Lv , Adolfo del Campo , Kihwan Kim

The quantum-classical Liouville equation offers a rigorous approach to nonadiabatic quantum dynamics based on surface hopping type trajectories. However, in practice the applicability of this approach has been limited to short times owing…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Aaron Kelly , Thomas E. Markland

We perform nonadiabatic simulations of warm dense aluminum based on the electron-force field (EFF) variant of wave-packet molecular dynamics. Comparison of the static ion-ion structure factor with density functional theory (DFT) is used to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Ryan A. Davis , W. A. Angermeier , R. Hermsmeier , Thomas G. White

TBPLaS is an open-source software package for the accurate simulation of physical systems with arbitrary geometry and dimensionality utilizing the tight-binding (TB) theory. It has an intuitive object-oriented Python application interface…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-28 Yunhai Li , Zhen Zhan , Xueheng Kuang , Yonggang Li , Shengjun Yuan

Simulating electronic behavior in materials and devices with realistic large system sizes remains a formidable task within the $ab$ $initio$ framework due to its computational intensity. Here we show DeePTB, an efficient deep learning-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-14 Qiangqiang Gu , Zhanghao Zhouyin , Shishir Kumar Pandey , Peng Zhang , Linfeng Zhang , Weinan E

The main obstacles to the realization of high-fidelity quantum gates are the control errors arising from inaccurate manipulation of a quantum system and the decoherence caused by the interaction between the quantum system and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-15 P. Z. Zhao , X. Wu , D. M. Tong

We review techniques for simulating fully quantum nonadiabatic dynamics using the frozen-width moving Gaussian basis functions to represent the nuclear wavefunction. A choice of these basis functions is primarily motivated by the idea of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Loïc Joubert-Doriol , Artur F. Izmaylov

The adiabatic theorem and "shortcuts to adiabaticity" for the adiabatic dynamics of time-dependent decoherence-free subspaces are explored in this paper. Starting from the definition of the dynamical stable decoherence-free subspaces, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 S. L. Wu , X. L. Huang , H. Li , X. X. Yi

We propose an approximate method for evaluating the importance of non-Born-Oppenheimer effects on the quantum dynamics of nuclei. The method uses a generalization of the dephasing representation (DR) of quantum fidelity to several diabatic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-01-15 Tomas Zimmermann , Jiri Vanicek

As semiconductor technologies continue to scale down to the nanoscale, the efficient prediction of material properties becomes increasingly critical. The tight-binding (TB) method is a widely used semi-empirical approach that offers a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-27 In Jun Park , Kamal Choudhary

We perform on-the-fly non-adiabatic molecular dynamics simulations using the symmetrical quasi-classical (SQC) approach with the recently suggested molecular Tully models: ethylene and fulvene. We attempt to provide benchmarks of the SQC…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Braden M. Weight , Arkajit Mandal , Pengfei Huo

Modern density functional theory (DFT) calculations employ the Kohn-Sham (KS) system of non-interacting electrons as a reference, with all complications buried in the exchange-correlation energy (Exc). The adiabatic connection formula gives…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-02 Zhenfei Liu , Kieron Burke