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Surface hopping (SH) methods are typically employed to simulate ultrafast nonadiabatic processes, but long timescales often remain beyond their reach. To address this, accelerated SH scheme mitigate this limitation by scaling the driving…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Jakub Martinka , Mahesh Kumar Sit , Pavlo O. Dral , Jiří Pittner

Accurate simulation the many-electronic nonadiabatic dynamics process at metal surfaces remains as a significant task. In this work, we present an orbital surface hopping (OSH) algorithm rigorously derived from the orbital quantum classical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Yong-Tao Ma , Rui-Hao Bi , Wenjie Dou

Mixed-quantum classical (MQC) methods for simulating the dynamics of molecules at metal surfaces have the potential to accurately and efficiently provide mechanistic insight into reactive processes. Here, we introduce simple two-dimensional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 James Gardner , Scott Habershon , Reinhard J. Maurer

We derive and implement analytic nuclear gradients and derivative couplings for a constrained Complete Active Space Self-Consistent Field with a small active space designed to model electron or hole transfer. Using a Lagrangian formalism,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Tian Qiu , Joseph E. Subotnik

Accurate simulation of the non-adiabatic dynamics of molecules in excited electronic states is key to understanding molecular photo-physical processes. Here we present a novel method, based on a semiclassical approximation, that is as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-05-24 Alexander White , Sergei Tretiak , Dmitry Mozyrsky

Nonadiabatic molecular dynamics simulations aim to describe the coupled electron-nuclear dynamics of molecules in excited electronic states. These simulations have been applied to understand a plethora of photochemical and photophysical…

It is well known that fewest-switches surface hopping (FSSH) fails to correctly capture the quadratic scaling of rate constants with diabatic coupling in the weak-coupling limit, as expected from Fermi's golden rule and Marcus theory. To…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 Joseph E. Lawrence , Jonathan R. Mannouch , Jeremy O. Richardson

In the spirit of the fewest switches surface hopping, the frozen Gaussian approximation with surface hopping (FGA-SH) method samples a path integral representation of the non-adiabatic dynamics in the semiclassical regime. An improved…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Jianfeng Lu , Zhennan Zhou

We perform extensive benchmark comparisons of surface hopping dynamics with numerically exact calculations for the spin-boson model over a wide range of energetic and coupling parameters as well as temperature. We find that deviations from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-04 Hsing-Ta Chen , David R. Reichman

A software package, called DFTBaby, is published, which provides the electronic structure needed for running non-adiabatic molecular dynamics simulations at the level of charge-consistent tight-binding DFT. A long-range correction is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Alexander Humeniuk , Roland Mitric

We investigate the non-adiabatic quantum dynamics of ultralong-range Rydberg molecules using a vibronically coupled two-channel treatment. The two channels are composed of coupled trilobite and butterfly electronic states, formed as a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Felix Giering , Rohan Srikumar , Peter Schmelcher

The ultrafast nonadiabatic internal conversion in azomethane is explored by the on-the-fly trajectory surface-hopping simulations of photoinduced dynamics and femtosecond transient absorption (TA) pump-probe (PP) spectra at three…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-10-29 Chao Xu , Kunni Lin , Deping Hu , Feng Long Gu , Maxim F. Gelin , Zhenggang Lan

A class of surface hopping algorithms is studied comparing two recent Landau-Zener (LZ) formulas for the probability of nonadiabatic transitions. One of the formulas requires a diabatic representation of the potential matrix while the other…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Andrey K. Belyaev , Caroline Lasser , Giulio Trigila

We compute highly accurate first principle based \textit{ab initio} adiabatic potential energy surfaces (PESs) using State-Averaged Multi-Configurational Self-Consistent Field (SA-MCSCF) followed by internally contracted Multi-Reference…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Avik Guchait , Gourhari Jana , Satyam Ravi , Koushik Naskar , Satrajit Adhikari

Calculations of the lowest valence {\pi}* as well as the 3s and higher energy 3p{\sigma} Rydberg excited states of the CO2 molecule are carried out using density functionals with variational optimization of the orbitals, an approach…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Darío Barreiro-Lage , Gianluca Levi , Hannes Jonssón , Thanja Lamberts

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…

We revisit a recent proposal to model nonadiabatic problems with a complex-valued Hamiltonian through a phase-space surface hopping (PSSH) algorithm employing a pseudo-diabatic basis. Here, we show that such a pseudo-diabatic PSSH (PD-PSSH)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Yanze Wu , Joseph Subotnik

We investigate both pure and mixed states Floquet dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT) in the periodically time-dependent extended XY model. We exactly show that the proposed Floquet Hamiltonian of interacting spins can be expressed as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-03 Sara Zamani , R. Jafari , A. Langari

New ab-initio surface hopping simulations of the excited state dynamics of CS$_2$ including spin-orbit coupling are compared to new experimental measurements using a multiphoton ionisation probe in a photoelectron spectroscopy experiment.…

In this paper, we introduce the Floquet Ehrenfest and Floquet surface hopping approaches to study the nonadiabatic dynamics in the laser-dressed solid systems. We demonstrate that these two approaches can be formulated in both real and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Jingqi Chen , Yu Wang , Wenjie Dou