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We present a Lagrangian-based implementation of Ehrenfest dynamics with nuclear-electronic orbital (NEO) theory and real-time time-dependent density functional theory (RT-TDDFT) for extended periodic systems. In addition to a quantum…
A Lagrangian formulation is constructed for particle interpretations of quantum mechanics, a well-known example of such an interpretation being the Bohm model. The advantages of such a description are that the equations for particle motion,…
An accelerated polynomial expansion scheme to construct the density matrix in quantum mechanical molecular dynamics simulations is proposed. The scheme is based on recursive density matrix expansions, e.g. [Phys. Rev. B. 66 (2002), p.…
In Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (BOMD) simulations based on density functional theory (DFT), the potential energy and the interatomic forces are calculated from an electronic ground state density that is determined by an iterative…
A shadow molecular dynamics scheme for flexible charge models is presented, where the shadow Born-Oppenheimer potential is derived from a coarse-grained approximation of range-separated density functional theory. The interatomic potential,…
We discuss the development and implementation of a constant temperature (NVT) molecular dynamics scheme that combines the Nos\'e-Hoover chain thermostat with the extended Lagrangian Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (BOMD) scheme, using a…
The equations of Lagrangian gas dynamics fall into the larger class of overdetermined hyperbolic and thermodynamically compatible (HTC) systems of partial differential equations. They satisfy an entropy inequality (second principle of…
The Born--Oppenheimer approximation is the standard tool for the study of molecular systems. It is founded on the observation that the energy scale of the electron dynamics in a molecule is larger than that of the nuclei. A very similar…
Extended Lagrangian molecular dynamics (XLMD) is a general method for performing molecular dynamics simulations using quantum and classical many-body potentials. Recently several new XLMD schemes have been proposed and tested on several…
A series of 20 ps ab initio molecular dynamic simulations of water at ambient density and temperatures ranging from 300 to 450K are presented. Both Car-Parrinello (CP) and Born-Oppenheimer (BO) molecular dynamics techniques are compared for…
Magneto-hydrodynamics is one of the foremost models in plasma physics with applications in inertial confinement fusion, astrophysics and elsewhere. Advanced numerical methods are needed to get an insight into the complex physical phenomena.…
Electronic coherences can be leveraged to control molecular dynamics, but such control is limited by ultrafast decoherence driven by coupling between electronic excitations and molecular vibrations. With the goal of understanding and…
The recent progress of linear-scaling or O(N) methods in the density functional theory (DFT) is remarkable. We expect that first-principles molecular dynamics (FPMD) simulations based on DFT can now treat more realistic and complex systems…
We present the construction of an exponentially accurate time-dependent Born-Oppenheimer approximation for molecular quantum mechanics. We study molecular systems whose electron masses are held fixed and whose nuclear masses are…
We present an improved field-theoretic approach to the grand-canonical potential suitable for linear scaling molecular dynamics simulations using forces from self-consistent electronic structure calculations. It is based on an exact…
We present an Augmented Lagrangian formulation and its real-space implementation for non-periodic orbital-free Density Functional Theory (OF-DFT) calculations. In particular, we rewrite the constrained minimization problem of OF-DFT as a…
In this work we develop a theory of correlated many-electron dynamics dressed by the presence of a finite-temperature harmonic bath. The theory is based on the ab-initio Hamiltonian, and thus well-defined apart from any phenomenological…
We consider the Regge-Teitelboim model for a relativistic extended object embedded in a fixed background Minkowski spacetime, in which the dynamics is determined by an action proportional to the integral of the scalar curvature of the…
Motivated by a similar approach for Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics, this paper proposes an extended "shadow" Lagrangian density for quantum states of superfluids. The extended Lagrangian contains an additional field variable that is…
Coherent or exact equations of motion for a post-Newtonian Lagrangian formalism are the Euler-Lagrange equations without any terms truncated. They naturally conserve energy {and} angular momentum. Doubling the phase-space variables of…