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We present a theoretical study of the dissociative tunneling ionization process. Analytic expressions for the nuclear kinetic energy distribution of the ionization rates are derived. A particularly simple expression for the spectrum is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Jens Svensmark , Oleg I. Tolstikhin , Lars Bojer Madsen

The combined quantum electron-nuclear dynamics is often associated with the Born-Huang expansion of the molecular wave function and the appearance of nonadiabatic effects as a perturbation. On the other hand, native multicomponent…

This report presents a new approach for treating the coupling of electrons and nuclei in quantum mechanical calculations for molecules and condensed matter. It includes the standard "Born-Oppenheimer approximation" as a special case but…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-06-28 Gerald I. Kerley

We perform model calculations for a stretched LiF molecule, demonstrating that nonadiabatic charge transfer effects can be accurately and seamlessly described within a density functional framework. In alkali halides like LiF, there is an…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-03-01 Chen Li , Ryan Requist , E. K. U. Gross

A theory of electronic friction is developed using the exact factorization of the electron-nuclear wavefunction. No assumption is made regarding the electronic bath, which can be made of independent or interacting electrons, and the nuclei…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Rocco Martinazzo , Irene Burghardt

We develop a formalism to accurately account for the renormalization of electronic structure due to quantum and thermal nuclear motions within the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. We focus on the fundamental energy gap obtained from…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-03 Vitaly Gorelov , David M. Ceperley , Markus Holzmann , Carlo Pierleoni

Ultrafast real-time dynamics are critical for understanding a broad range of physical processes. Real-time time-dependent density functional theory (rt-TDDFT) has emerged as a powerful computational tool for simulating these dynamics,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-22 Haotian Zhao , Lixin He

Nonequilibrium dynamics governed by electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions plays a key role in electronic devices and spectroscopies and is central to understanding electronic excitations in materials. The real-time Boltzmann transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-14 Ivan Maliyov , Jia Yin , Jia Yao , Chao Yang , Marco Bernardi

A new "on the fly" method to perform Born-Oppenheimer ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) is presented. Inspired by Ehrenfest dynamics in time-dependent density functional theory, the electronic orbitals are evolved by a Schroedinger-like…

We propose to measure nonadiabaticity of molecular quantum dynamics rigorously with the quantum fidelity between the Born-Oppenheimer and fully nonadiabatic dynamics. It is shown that this measure of nonadiabaticity applies in situations…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-06-28 Tomas Zimmermann , Jiri Vanicek

The accurate description of nuclear quantum effects, such as zero-point energy, is important for modeling a wide range of chemical and biological processes. Within the nuclear-electronic orbital (NEO) approach, such effects are incorporated…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Fabijan Pavošević , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

The assumptions underpinning the adiabatic Born-Oppenheimer (BO) approximation are broken for molecules interacting with attosecond laser pulses, which generate complicated coupled electronic-nuclear wavepackets that generally will have…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-05-17 Aleksander P. Woźniak , Ludwik Adamowicz , Thomas Bondo Pedersen , Simen Kvaal

It is known that, within the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, the slow modes of the nuclear motion are altered by three effects that emerge from integrating out the fast modes of the electronic motion. The first is an effective scalar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Joseph Samuel

An alternative method is introduced to solve a simple two-dimensional models describing vibrational excitation and dissociation processes during the electron-molecule collisions. The model works with one electronic and one nuclear degree of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Roman Čurík , Dávid Hvizdoš , Chris H. Greene

Modern electronic structure theory is built around the Born-Oppenheimer approximation and the construction of an electronic Hamiltonian H_{el}(X) that depends on the nuclear position X (and not the nuclear momentum P). In this article,…

The development and implementation of increasingly accurate methods for electronic structure calculations mean that, for many atomistic simulation problems, treating light nuclei as classical particles is now one of the most serious…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-12 Venkat Kapil , Joost VandeVondele , Michele Ceriotti

This work presents a new class of hybrid density functional theory (DFT) approximations, incorporating nonlocal exact exchange in predefined states such as core atomic orbitals (AOs). These projected hybrid density functionals are a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Benjamin G. Janesko

We present a novel theory and implementation for computing coupled electronic and quantal nuclear subsystems on a single potential energy surface, moving beyond the standard Born-Oppenheimer (BO) separation of nuclei and electrons. We…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Ziyong Chen , Jun Yang

Density functional theory (DFT) based modeling of electronic excited states is of importance for investigation of the photophysical/photochemical properties and spectroscopic characterization of large systems. The widely used linear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Diptarka Hait , Martin Head-Gordon

A first-principles coupled electron-nuclear dynamics simulation based on real-time, time-dependent density functional theory and Ehrenfest dynamics quantitatively repro-duces bimodal translational energy loss and angular distributions…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Jialong Shi , Lingjun Zhu , Florian Nitz , Oliver Bünermann , Alec M. Wodtke , Hua Guo , Bin Jiang