Current-Induced Forces for Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics

Nonadiabatic Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics.

An extension of Car-Parrinello (CP) molecular dynamics for efficient treatment of electronically nonadiabatic processes is presented. The current approach couples the S1 restricted open-shell Kohn-Sham excited state to the S0 ground state using a surface hopping scheme. Efficient evaluation of the nonadiabatic couplings is achieved by exploiting the available wave function time derivatives. Sin...

Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics Based on Trajectories

Performing molecular dynamics in electronically excited states requires the inclusion of nonadiabatic effects to properly describe phenomena beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. This article provides a survey of selected nonadiabatic methods based on quantum or classical trajectories. Among these techniques, trajectory surface hopping constitutes an interesting compromise between accuracy...

Semiclassical initial value representation for electronically nonadiabatic molecular dynamics

The semiclassical initial value representation ~SC-IVR!, which has recently seen a great deal of interest for treating nuclear dynamics on a single potential energy surface, is generalized to be able to describe electronically nonadiabatic ~i.e., multisurface! processes. The essential idea is a quantization of the classical electron-nuclear Hamiltonian of Meyer and Miller @J. Chem. Phys. 70, 32...

Ab initio multiple cloning algorithm for quantum nonadiabatic molecular dynamics.

We present a new algorithm for ab initio quantum nonadiabatic molecular dynamics that combines the best features of ab initio Multiple Spawning (AIMS) and Multiconfigurational Ehrenfest (MCE) methods. In this new method, ab initio multiple cloning (AIMC), the individual trajectory basis functions (TBFs) follow Ehrenfest equations of motion (as in MCE). However, the basis set is expanded (as in ...

Interrogation of Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics via Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy