A perspective on the investigation of spectroscopy and kinetics of complex molecular systems with semiclassical approaches

R Conte, C Aieta, M Cazzaniga… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In this Perspective we show that semiclassical methods provide a rigorous hierarchical way
to study the vibrational spectroscopy and kinetics of complex molecular systems. The time …

Coherent state based solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation: hierarchy of approximations to the variational principle

M Werther, SL Choudhury… - International Reviews in …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In this review, we give a comprehensive comparison of the most widely used coherent state
(CS) based methods to solve the time-dependent Schrödinger equation (TDSE). Starting …

Unraveling water solvation effects with quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics semiclassical vibrational spectroscopy: The case of thymidine

D Moscato, G Mandelli, M Bondanza… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We introduce a quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics semiclassical method for studying
the solvation process of molecules in water at the nuclear quantum mechanical level with …

Anharmonicity and quantum nuclear effects in theoretical vibrational spectroscopy: a molecular tale of two cities

R Conte, C Aieta, G Botti, M Cazzaniga… - Theoretical Chemistry …, 2023 - Springer
Anharmonic effects due to the shape of the molecular potential energy surface far from the
equilibrium geometry are major responsible for the deviations of the actual frequencies of …

[HTML][HTML] On-the-fly ab initio semiclassical evaluation of vibronic spectra at finite temperature

T Begušić, J Vaníček - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
To compute and analyze vibrationally resolved electronic spectra at zero temperature, we
have recently implemented the on-the-fly ab initio extended thawed Gaussian approximation …

Family of Gaussian wavepacket dynamics methods from the perspective of a nonlinear Schrödinger equation

J JL Vaníček - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Many approximate solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation can be formulated
as exact solutions of a nonlinear Schrödinger equation with an effective Hamiltonian …

[HTML][HTML] Single-hessian thawed gaussian approximation

T Begušić, M Cordova, J Vaníček - The Journal of chemical physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
To alleviate the computational cost associated with on-the-fly ab initio semiclassical
calculations of molecular spectra, we propose the single-Hessian thawed Gaussian …

[HTML][HTML] On-the-fly ab initio semiclassical evaluation of third-order response functions for two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy

T Begušić, J Vaníček - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Ab initio computation of two-dimensional electronic spectra is an expanding field, whose
goal is improving upon simple, few-dimensional models often employed to explain …

A semiclassical framework for mixed quantum classical dynamics

S Malpathak, MS Church, N Ananth - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Semiclassical (SC) approximations for quantum dynamic simulations in complex chemical
systems range from rigorously accurate methods that are computationally expensive to …

On-the-fly ab initio semiclassical evaluation of absorption spectra of polyatomic molecules beyond the condon approximation

A Patoz, T Begušić, J Vaníček - The Journal of Physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
To evaluate vibronic spectra beyond the Condon approximation, we extend the on-the-fly ab
initio thawed Gaussian approximation by considering the Herzberg–Teller contribution due …