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Mean-field Ring Polymer Molecular Dynamics (MF-RPMD) offers a computationally efficient method for the simulation of reaction rates in multi-level systems. Previous work has established that, to model a nonadiabatic state-to-state reaction…
We extend ring-polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) to allow for the direct simulation of general, electronically non-adiabatic chemical processes. The kinetically constrained (KC) RPMD method uses the imaginary-time path-integral…
Molecular dynamics with electronic friction (MDEF) approach can describe nonadiabatic effects accurately at metal surfaces in the weak nonadiabatic limit. That being said, MDEF treats nuclear motion classically, such that the nuclear…
We derive the non-adiabatic ring polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) approach in the phase space of the SU(N) Lie Group. This method, which we refer to as the spin mapping non-adiabatic RPMD (SM-NRPMD), is based on the spin-mapping formalism…
The ring polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) rate theory is an efficient and accurate method for estimating rate coefficients of chemical reactions affected by nuclear quantum effects. The commonly used RPMD treatment of gas-phase bimolecular…
Recently proposed non-adiabatic ring polymer molecular dynamics (NRPMD) approach has shown to provide accurate quantum dynamics by incorporating explicit electronic state descriptions and nuclear quantizations. Here, we present a rigorous…
We introduce the coherent state mapping ring-polymer molecular dynamics (CS-RPMD), a new method that accurately describes electronic non-adiabatic dynamics with explicit nuclear quantization. This new approach is derived by using coherent…
We present a new non-adiabatic ring polymer molecular dynamics (NRPMD) method based on the spin mapping formalism, which we refer to as the spin-mapping NRPMD (SM-NRPMD) approach. We derive the path-integral partition function expression…
Accurately modeling gas-surface collision dynamics presents a great challenge for theory, especially in the low energy (or temperature) regime where quantum effects are important. Here, a path integral based non-equilibrium ring polymer…
Two-dimensional Raman and hybrid terahertz/Raman spectroscopic techniques provide invaluable insight into molecular structure and dynamics of condensed-phase systems. However, corroborating experimental results with theory is difficult due…
This Feature Article presents an overview of the current status of Ring Polymer Molecular Dynamics (RPMD) rate theory. We first analyze the RPMD approach and its connection to quantum transition-state theory. We then focus on its practical…
In this work, a novel ring polymer representation for multi-level quantum system is proposed for thermal average calculations. The proposed presentation keeps the discreteness of the electronic states: besides position and momentum, each…
We introduce mapping-variable ring polymer molecular dynamics (MV-RPMD), a model dynamics for the direct simulation of multi-electron processes. An extension of the RPMD idea, this method is based on an exact, imaginary time path-integral…
With the path integral approach, the thermal average in a multi-electronic-state quantum systems can be approximated by the ring polymer representation on an extended configuration space, where the additional degrees of freedom are…
In this thesis I generalize Ring Polymer Molecular Dynamics (RPMD) rate theory to electronically non-adiabatic systems, followed by application to two one-dimensional curve crossing models and a multidimensional spin-boson model.
Ring polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) has proven to be an accurate approach for calculating thermal rate coefficients of various chemical reactions. For wider application of this methodology, efficient ways to generate the underlying…
The ring-polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) was used to calculate the thermal rate coefficients of the two-channel roaming reaction H + MgH. Both reaction channels, tight and roaming, are explicitly considered. This is a pioneering attempt…
Nonadiabatic ring-polymer molecular dynamics employs the mapping approach to describe nonadiabatic effects within the ring-polymer ansatz. In this paper, it is generalized to allow for the nuclear and electronic degrees of freedom to be…
Two of the most successful methods that are presently available for simulating the quantum dynamics of condensed phase systems are centroid molecular dynamics (CMD) and ring polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD). Despite their conceptual…
We present two multistate ring polymer instanton (RPI) formulations, both obtained from an exact path integral representation of the quantum canonical partition function for multistate systems. The two RPIs differ in their treatment of the…