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Nonadiabatic molecular dynamics (NAMD) is widely used to describe hot electron relaxation and nonradiative recombination processes, but high computational costs limit its application to large supercells. Here, we implement a nonadiabatic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Xiaoke He , Hsiao-Yi Tsai , Ziwei Chai , Junwen Yin , Zhongfei Xu , Li-Min Liu

Nonadiabatic ring-polymer molecular dynamics employs the mapping approach to describe nonadiabatic effects within the ring-polymer ansatz. In this paper, it is generalized to allow for the nuclear and electronic degrees of freedom to be…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Jeremy O. Richardson , Philipp Meyer , Marc-Oliver Pleinert , Michael Thoss

We propose a novel method to describe realistically ionization processes with absorbing boundary conditions in basis expansion within the formalism of the so-called Non-Adiabatic Quantum Molecular Dynamics. This theory couples…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Mathias Uhlmann , Thomas Kunert , Ruediger Schmidt

There is currently much interest in the development of improved trajectory-based methods for the simulation of nonadiabatic processes in complex systems. An important goal for such methods is the accurate calculation of the rate constant…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-09-04 Jeremy O. Richardson , Michael Thoss

A first principles quantum formalism to describe the non-adiabatic dynamics of electrons and nuclei based on a second quantization representation (SQR) of the electronic motion combined with the usual representation of the nuclear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-11-06 Sudip Sasmal , Oriol Vendrell

Classical molecular dynamics simulations of hydrogen plasmas have been performed with emphasis on the analysis of equilibration process. Theoretical basis of simulation model as well as numerically relevant aspects -- such as the proper…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 M. A. Gigosos , D. Gonzalez-Herrero , R. Florido , A. Calisti , S. Ferri , B. Talin

Along with recent progress in structural biology and genome biology, structural dynamics of molecular systems including nucleic acids has attracted attention in the context of gene regulation. Structure-function relationship is an important…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-23 Takeru Kameda , Akinori Awazu , Yuichi Togashi

The powerful molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is basically based on a picture that the atoms experience classical-like trajectories under the exertion of classical force field determined by the quantum mechanically solved electronic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 Wei Feng , Luting Xu , Xin-Qi Li , Weihai Fang

A mixed quantum-classical approach to simulate the coupled dynamics of electrons and nuclei in nanoscale molecular systems is presented. The method relies on a second order expansion of the Lagrangian in time-dependent density functional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. A. Niehaus , D. Heringer , B. Torralva , Th. Frauenheim

Ultrafast optical techniques allow to study ultrafast molecular dynamics involving both nuclear and electronic motion.To support interpretation, theoretical approaches are needed that can describe both the nuclear and electron…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Thomas Schnappinger , Regina de Vivie-Riedle

We present the molecular hyperdynamics algorithm and its implementation to the nonorthogonal tight-binding model NTBM and the corresponding software. Due to its multiscale structure, the proposed approach provides the long time scale…

We develop a trajectory-based approach for excited-state molecular dynamics simulations of systems subject to an external periodic drive. We combine the exact-factorization formalism, allowing to treat electron-nuclear systems in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Marco Schirò , Florian G. Eich , Federica Agostini

Non-adiabatic dynamics at molecule-metal interfaces govern diverse and technologically important phenomena, from heterogeneous catalysis to dye-sensitized solar energy conversion and charge transport across molecular junctions. Realistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Robert A. Lang , Paarth Jain , Juan Miguel Arrazola , Danial Motlagh

Physics students now have access to interactive molecular dynamics simulations that can model and animate the motions of hundreds of particles, such as noble gas atoms, that attract each other weakly at short distances but repel strongly…

Physics Education · Physics 2015-02-27 Daniel V. Schroeder

We examine time-resolved X-ray diffraction from molecules in the gas phase which undergo nonadiabatic avoided-crossing dynamics involving strongly coupled electrons and nuclei. Several contributions to the signal are identified,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-05-30 Markus Kowalewski , Kochise Bennett , Shaul Mukamel

We introduce a novel computational framework for excited-states molecular quantum dynamics simulations driven by quantum computing-based electronic-structure calculations. This framework leverages the fewest-switches surface-hopping method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 Anthony Gandon , Alberto Baiardi , Pauline Ollitrault , Ivano Tavernelli

Reliable trajectory-based nonadiabatic quantum dynamics methods at the atomic level are critical for understanding many important processes in real systems. The paper reports latest progress of nonadiabatic field (NaF), a conceptually novel…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Baihua Wu , Bingqi Li , Xin He , Xiangsong Cheng , Jiajun Ren , Jian Liu

Molecular dynamics simulates the~movements of atoms. Due to its high cost, many methods have been developed to "push the~simulation forward". One of them, metadynamics, can hasten the~molecular dynamics with the~help of variables describing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Jana Pazúriková , Jaroslav Oľha , Aleš Křenek , Vojtěch Spiwok

Conical intersections are ubiquitous in polyatomic molecules and responsible for a wide range of phenomena in chemistry and physics. We introduce and implement a local diabatic representation for the correlated electron-nuclear dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Bing Gu

Excited-state molecular dynamics (ESMD) simulations near conical intersections (CIs) pose significant challenges when using machine learning potentials (MLPs). Although MLPs have gained recognition for their integration into mixed…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-17 Sung Wook Moon , Soohaeng Yoo Willow , Tae Hyeon Park , Seung Kyu Min , Chang Woo Myung