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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…

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We propose a general framework for a hybrid continuous-discrete algorithm that integrates continuous-time deterministic dynamics with Metropolis-Hastings steps to combine search dynamics with and without detailed balance. Our purpose is to…

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Independent electron surface hopping (IESH) is a computational algorithm for simulating the mixed quantum-classical molecular dynamics of adsorbate atoms and molecules interacting with metal surfaces. It is capable of modelling the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 James Gardner , Daniel Corken , Svenja M. Janke , Scott Habershon , Reinhard J. Maurer

Experiments indicate that collective coupling of molecular ensembles to confined optical modes can modify excited-state dynamics and photochemical reactivity. To describe such cavity-induced effects at atomic resolution, semi-classical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Arun Kumar Kanakati , Oriol Vendrell , Gerrit Groenhof

In this paper, we present quantum algorithms for a class of highly-oscillatory transport equations, which arise in semiclassical computation of surface hopping problems and other related non-adiabatic quantum dynamics, based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Anjiao Gu , Shi Jin

We compare the recently introduced multi-state mapping approach to surface hopping (MASH) with the F\"orster and Redfield theories of excitation energy transfer. Whereas F\"orster theory relies on weak coupling between chromophores, and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 Johan E. Runeson , Thomas P. Fay , David E. Manolopoulos

Systems in contact with an environment provide a ubiquitous challenge in quantum dynamics. Many fascinating phenomena can arise if the coupling is strong, leading to non-Markovian dynamics of the system, or collective, where the environment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Kai Müller , Walter T. Strunz

Intersystem crossing is a radiationless process that can take place in a molecule irradiated by UV-Vis light, thereby playing an important role in many environmental, biological and technological processes. This paper reviews different…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Sebastian Mai , Philipp Marquetand , Leticia González

Resonances between excitonic transitions and nuclear coordinates have been shown to drive a variety of excited-state dynamical phenomena in molecular systems. Here, we report mixed quantum--classical simulations showing similar resonances…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-31 Alex Krotz , Roel Tempelaar

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…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Jiawei Peng , Yu Xie , Deping Hu , Zhenggang Lan

Ring Polymer Surface-Hopping (RPSH) has been recently introduced as a well-tailored method for incorporating nuclear quantum effects (NQEs), such as zero-point energy and tunneling, into non-adiabatic molecular dynamics simulations. The…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Dil K. Limbu , Farnaz A. Shakib

The Davydov D1 ansatz, which assigns an individual bosonic trajectory to each spin state, is an efficient, yet extremely accurate trial state for time-dependent variation of the sub-Ohmic spin-boson model [J. Chem. Phys. 138, 084111…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yao Yao , Yang Zhao

The diagonal Born-Oppenheimer correction (DBOC) stems from the diagonal second derivative coupling term in the adiabatic representation, and it can have an arbitrary large magnitude when a gap between neighbouring Born-Oppenheimer (BO)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-05-02 Rami Gherib , Liyuan Ye , Ilya G. Ryabinkin , Artur F. Izmaylov

We benchmark a set of quantum-chemistry methods, including multitrajectory Ehrenfest, fewest-switches surface-hopping, and multiconfigurational-Ehrenfest dynamics, against exact quantum-many-body techniques by studying real-time dynamics in…

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

Non-adiabatic dynamics simulations have become a standard approach to explore photochemical reactions. Such simulations require underlying potential energy surfaces and couplings between them, calculated at a chosen level of theory, yet…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Thomas V. Papineau , Denis Jacquemin , Morgane Vacher

We describe a novel approach to subsystem decoherence without the usual tracing-out of the environment. The subsystem of focus is described entirely by a pure state evolving non-unitarily along a single classical trajectory of its…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu , E. K. U. Gross

The violation of detailed balance poses a serious problem for the majority of current quasiclassical methods for simulating nonadiabatic dynamics. In order to analyze the severity of the problem, we predict the long-time limits of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-20 Graziano Amati , Jonathan R. Mannouch , Jeremy O. Richardson

Stochastic mass transport models are usually described by specifying hopping rates of particles between sites of a given lattice, and the goal is to predict the existence and properties of the steady state. Here we ask the reverse question:…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 B. Waclaw , J. Sopik , W. Janke , H. Meyer-Ortmanns

We propose a method which combines the quantum-classical mapping approach to surface hopping (MASH) with the dissipative quantum dynamics of the Lindblad master equation. Like conventional surface-hopping methods, our approach is based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Kasra Asnaashari , Jeremy O. Richardson