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Charge-exchange $(d,{}^{2}\text{He})$ reactions in inverse kinematics at intermediate energies are a very promising method to investigate the Gamow-Teller transition strength in unstable nuclei. A simulation and analysis software based on…

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We developed a method which performs the coupled adiabatic spin and lattice dynamics based on the tight-binding electronic structure model, where the intrinsic magnetic field and ionic forces are calculated from the converged…

Multideterminant calculations have been performed on model systems to emphasize the role of many-body effects in the general description of charge quantization experiments. We show numerically and derive analytically that a closed-shell…

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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

Intense experimental and theoretical studies have demonstrated that the anisotropic triangular lattice as realized in the kappa-(BEDT-TTF)2X family of organic charge transfer (CT) salts yields a complex phase diagram with magnetic,…

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Nonadiabatic Thouless pumping of electrons is studied within the framework of topological Floquet engineering, particularly focused on how atomic lattice dynamics affect the emergent Floquet topological phase in trans-polyacetylene under…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-16 Ruiyi Zhou , Yosuke Kanai

In the dynamics of atoms and molecules at metal surfaces, electron-hole pair excitations can play a crucial role. In the case of hyperthermal hydrogen atom scattering, they lead to nonadiabatic energy loss and highly inelastic scattering.…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-02 Connor L. Box , Nils Hertl , Wojciech G. Stark , Reinhard J. Maurer

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…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Zhenxing Zhu , Diandong Tang , Lin Shen , Wei-Hai Fang

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.…

We present a detailed comparison of the S0, S1 (n -> \pi*) and S2 (\pi -> \pi*) potential energy surfaces (PESs) of the prototypical molecular switch azobenzene as obtained by Delta-self-consistent-field (Delta-SCF) Density-Functional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-02-22 Reinhard J. Maurer , Karsten Reuter

This work deals with the integration of nonsmooth flexible multibody systems with impacts and dry friction. We develop a framework which improves a non-impulsive trajectory of state variables by impulsive correction after each time-step if…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Shahed Rezaei , Thorsten Schindler

The dynamical mean-field theory together with the non-crossing approximation is used to set up a novel scheme to study the electronic structure of strongly correlated electron systems. The non-interacting band structure is obtained from a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. B. Zoelfl , Th. Pruschke , J. Keller , A. I. Poteryaev , I. A. Nekrasov , V. I. Anisimov

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 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

The simulation of non-equilibrium electron distributions is essential for capturing light-metal interactions and therefore the study of photoabsorption, photocatalysis, laser ablation, and many other phenomena. Current methodologies, such…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-13 M. Uehlein , H. T. Snowden , C. Seibel , T. Held , S. T. Weber , R. J. Maurer , B. Rethfeld

Mixed quantum-classical methods, such as surface hopping and Ehrenfest dynamics, have proven useful for describing molecular processes involving multiple electronic states. These methods require propagating many independent trajectories,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Alan Scheidegger , Jiří J. L. Vaníček

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…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-10-07 Zeyu Zhou , Hsing-Ta Chen , Abraham Nitzan , Joseph Eli Subotnik

In this paper, we investigate the conformational dynamics of alanine dipeptide under an external electric field by nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation. We consider the case of a constant and of an oscillatory field. In this context…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 Han Wang , Christof Schütte , Giovanni Ciccotti , Luigi Delle Site

In this comparative study we benchmark a recently developed non-adiabatic exchange-correlation potential within time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) (Phys.\ Rev.\ Lett.\ {\bf 120}, 157701 (2018)) by (a) validating the transient…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-20 Niklas Dittmann , Nicole Helbig , Dante M. Kennes