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Accelerating quantum dynamical simulations with quantum computing has received considerable attention but remains a significant challenge. In variational quantum algorithms for quantum dynamics, designing an expressive and shallow-depth…

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It is known for quite some time that approximate density functional (ADF) theories fail disastrously when describing the dis-sociative symmetric radical cations R2+. Considering this dissociation limit, previous work has shown that…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-28 Ester Livshits , Roi Baer

We review techniques for simulating fully quantum nonadiabatic dynamics using the frozen-width moving Gaussian basis functions to represent the nuclear wavefunction. A choice of these basis functions is primarily motivated by the idea of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Loïc Joubert-Doriol , Artur F. Izmaylov

Non-adiabatic molecular dynamics (NAMD) has become an essential computational technique for studying the photophysical relaxation of molecular systems after light absorption. These phenomena require approximations that go beyond the…

A density functional theory (DFT) framework is presented that links functional derivatives of free-energy functionals to non-linear static density response functions in quantum many-body systems. Within this framework, explicit expressions…

Modern density functional theory (DFT) calculations employ the Kohn-Sham (KS) system of non-interacting electrons as a reference, with all complications buried in the exchange-correlation energy (Exc). The adiabatic connection formula gives…

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Akin to the traditional quasi-classical trajectory method for investigating the dynamics on a single adiabatic potential energy surface for an elementary chemical reaction, we carry out the dynamics on a 2-state ab initio potential energy…

The Ziegler-Rauk-Baerends multiplet sum method (MSM) assumes that density-functional theory (DFT) provides a good description of states dominated by a single determinant. It then uses symmetry to add static correlation to DFT. In our…

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Classical density functional theory (DFT) provides an exact variational framework for determining the equilibrium properties of inhomogeneous fluids. We report a generalization of DFT to treat the non-equilibrium dynamics of classical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-09-06 Matthias Schmidt , Joseph M. Brader

The theoretical investigation of non-adiabatic processes is hampered by the complexity of the coupled electron-nuclear dynamics beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. Classically, the simulation of such reactions is limited by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-06 Pauline J. Ollitrault , Guglielmo Mazzola , Ivano Tavernelli

Nonadiabatic effects that arise from the concerted motion of electrons and atoms at comparable energy and time scales are omnipresent in thermal and light-driven chemistry at metal surfaces. Excited (hot) electrons can measurably affect…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-10 Connor L. Box , Yaolong Zhang , Rongrong Yin , Bin Jiang , Reinhard J. Maurer

Streaking of photoelectrons has long been used for the temporal characterization of attosecond extreme ultraviolet pulses. When the time-resolved photoelectrons originate from a coherent superposition of electronic states, they carry an…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Markus Kowalewski , Kochise Bennett , Jérémy R. Rouxel , Shaul Mukamel

A non-adiabatic nuclear wavepacket dynamics simulation of the H$_2$O$^+$ de-excitation process is performed based on electronic structure calculations using the variational quantum eigensolver. The adiabatic potential energy surfaces and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Hirotoshi Hirai , Sho Koh

Electronic friction-Langevin dynamics (EF-LD) provides an efficient framework for capturing nonadiabatic effects at solid surfaces, with particular relevance to electrochemistry and molecular electronics. In this work, we investigate…

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Time-dependent electronic structure methods provide an efficient, accurate, and robust alternative to traditional time dependent methods for computing both linear and non-linear optical properties. With this in mind, we have developed the…

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Despite their high accuracy, standard coupled cluster models cannot be used for nonadiabatic molecular dynamics simulations because they yield unphysical complex excitation energies at conical intersections between same-symmetry excited…

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Linear-response time-dependent (TD) density-functional theory (DFT) has been implemented in the pseudopotential wavelet-based electronic structure program BigDFT and results are compared against those obtained with the all-electron…

This paper provides the first ab-initio on-the-fly example of using the Quasi-Diabatic (QD) scheme for non-adiabatic simulations with diabatic dynamics approaches. The QD scheme provides a seamless interface between diabatic quantum…

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We extend the Mixed Quantum-Classical Initial Value Representation (MQC-IVR), a semiclassical method for computing real-time correlation functions, to electronically nonadiabatic systems using the Meyer-Miller-Stock-Thoss (MMST) Hamiltonian…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Matthew S. Church , Timothy J. H. Hele , Gregory S. Ezra , Nandini Ananth

We extend the nonequilibrium dynamical mean field (DMFT) formalism to inhomogeneous systems by adapting the "real-space" DMFT method to Keldysh Green's functions. Solving the coupled impurity problems using strong-coupling perturbation…

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