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Fewest-switches surface hopping (FSSH) is the most popular method for simulating photochemical processes of molecular systems. Recently, we have constructed long short-term memory (LSTM) networks as a propagator for electronic subsystems in…

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Non-adiabatic chemical reactions involving continuous circularly polarized light (cw CPL) have not attracted as much attention as dynamics in unpolarized/linearly polarized light. However, including circularly (in contrast to linearly)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Zeyu Zhou , Yanze Wu , Xuezhi Bian , Joseph Eli Subotnik

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

Fewest switches surface hopping (FSSH) is a well benchmarked dynamical method for simulating nonadiabatic systems. In particular, the literature shows that for the spin-Boson model Hamiltonian, FSSH with appropriate corrections usually…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Manas Nagda , Priyam Kumar De , Amber Jain

In this article, we propose a Frozen Gaussian Sampling (FGS) algorithm for simulating nonadiabatic quantum dynamics at metal surfaces with a continuous spectrum. This method consists of a Monte-Carlo algorithm for sampling the initial wave…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Zhen Huang , Limin Xu , Zhennan Zhou

We present a rare event sampling scheme applicable to coupled electronic excited states. In particular, we extend the forward flux sampling (FFS) method for rare event sampling to a nonadiabatic version (NAFFS) that uses the trajectory…

The capability of fewest-switches surface hopping (FSSH) to describe non-adiabatic dynamics of small and medium sized molecules under explicit excitation with external fields is evaluated. Different parameters in FSSH and combinations…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Moritz Heindl , Leticia González

In the study of non-adiabatic chemical processes such as photocatalysis and photosynthesis, non-adiabatic molecular dynamics (NAMD) is an indispensable theoretical tool, which requires precise potential energy surfaces (PESs) of ground and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Tianyi Li , Yumeng Zeng , Qiming Ding , Zixuan Huo , Xiaosi Xu , Jiajun Ren , Diandong Tang , Xiaoxia Cai , Xiao Yuan

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

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 surface moving mesh method is presented for general surfaces with or without explicit parameterization. The method can be viewed as a nontrivial extension of the moving mesh partial differential equation method that has been developed for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Avary Kolasinski , Weizhang Huang

We propose a trajectory-based method for simulating nonadiabatic dynamics in molecular systems with two coupled electronic states. Employing a quantum-mechanically exact mapping of the two-level problem to a spin-1/2 coherent state, we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 Johan E. Runeson , Jeremy O. Richardson

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

A semicalssical method based on surface-hopping techniques is developed to model the dynamics of radiative association with electronic transitions in arbitrary polyatomic systems. It can be proven that our method is an extension of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Péter Szabó , Magnus Gustafsson

Nonadiabatic coupling between electrons and molecular motion at metal surfaces leads to energy dissipation and dynamical steering effects during chemical surface dynamics. We present a theoretical approach to the scattering of molecules…

A surface-hopping algorithm recently derived from the exact factorization approach, SHXF, [Ha, Lee, Min, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9, 1097 (2018)] introduces an additional term in the electronic equation of surface-hopping, which couples…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Patricia Vindel-Zandbergen , Spiridoula Matsika , Neepa T. Maitra

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

A general theoretical framework is derived for the recently developed multi-state trajectory (MST) approach from the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation, resulting in equations of motion for coupled nuclear-electronic dynamics equivalent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Guohua Tao

A new methodology of simulating nonadiabatic dynamics using frozen-width Gaussian wavepackets within the moving crude adiabatic representation with the on-the-fly evaluation of electronic structure is presented. The main feature of the new…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Loïc Joubert-Doriol , Artur F. Izmaylov

Interest in vibrational polaritonic chemistry, where ground-state chemical kinetics are modified via confined optical modes in a cavity, has surged in recent years. Although models have been developed to understand cavity-modified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Muhammad R. Hasyim , Arkajit Mandal , David R. Reichman