Electron dynamics in molecular elementary processes and chemical reactions

K Takatsuka - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2021 - academic.oup.com
This account places a particular emphasis on recent progress in the theory and its
applications of nonadiabatic electron dynamics in chemical science. After a brief description …

Exact factorization adventures: A promising approach for non-bound states

E Villaseco Arribas, F Agostini, NT Maitra - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Modeling the dynamics of non-bound states in molecules requires an accurate description of
how electronic motion affects nuclear motion and vice-versa. The exact factorization (XF) …

Probing electronic fluxes via time-resolved x-ray scattering

G Hermann, V Pohl, G Dixit, JC Tremblay - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
The current flux density is a vector field that can be used to describe theoretically how
electrons flow in a system out of equilibrium. In this work, we unequivocally demonstrate that …

Quantum theory of concerted electronic and nuclear fluxes associated with adiabatic intramolecular processes

T Bredtmann, DJ Diestler, SD Li, J Manz… - Physical Chemistry …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
An elementary molecular process can be characterized by the flow of particles (ie, electrons
and nuclei) that compose the system. The flow, in turn, is quantitatively described by the flux …

Imaging charge migration in chiral molecules using time-resolved x-ray diffraction

S Giri, JC Tremblay, G Dixit - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
Four-dimensional imaging of charge migration is crucial to the understanding of several
ubiquitous processes in nature. The present work focuses on imaging of charge migration in …

Time in quantum mechanics: A fresh look at the continuity equation

A Schild - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
The local conservation of a physical quantity whose distribution changes with time is
mathematically described by the continuity equation. The corresponding time parameter …

Multidirectional angular electronic flux during adiabatic attosecond charge migration in excited benzene

G Hermann, CM Liu, J Manz, B Paulus… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Recently, adiabatic attosecond charge migration (AACM) has been monitored and simulated
for the first time, with application to the oriented iodoacetylene cation where AACM starts …

Electronic flux density beyond the Born–Oppenheimer approximation

A Schild, F Agostini, EKU Gross - The Journal of Physical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
In the Born–Oppenheimer approximation, the electronic wave function is typically real-
valued and hence the electronic flux density (current density) seems to vanish. This is …

Electronic-state chaos, intramolecular electronic energy redistribution, and chemical bonding in persisting multidimensional nonadiabatic systems

K Takatsuka, Y Arasaki - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We study the chaotic, huge fluctuation of electronic state, resultant intramolecular energy
redistribution, and strong chemical bonding surviving the fluctuation with exceedingly long …

Practical phase-space electronic Hamiltonians for ab initio dynamics

Z Tao, T Qiu, M Bhati, X Bian, T Duston… - The Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Modern electronic structure theory is built around the Born–Oppenheimer approximation
and the construction of an electronic Hamiltonian H ̂ el (X) that depends on the nuclear …