Theory and simulation of the ultrafast double-bond isomerization of biological chromophores

S Gozem, HL Luk, I Schapiro, M Olivucci - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Ultrafast processes in light-absorbing proteins have been implicated in the primary step in
the light-to-energy conversion and the initialization of photoresponsive biological functions …

An overview of nonadiabatic dynamics simulations methods, with focus on the direct approach versus the fitting of potential energy surfaces

M Persico, G Granucci - Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, 2014 - Springer
We review state-of-the-art nonadiabatic molecular dynamics methods, with focus on the
comparison of two general strategies: the “direct” one, in which the potential energy surfaces …

Newton-X platform: New software developments for surface hop** and nuclear ensembles

M Barbatti, M Bondanza, R Crespo-Otero… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Newton-X is an open-source computational platform to perform nonadiabatic molecular
dynamics based on surface hop** and spectrum simulations using the nuclear ensemble …

The fourth age of quantum chemistry: molecules in motion

AG Csaszar, C Fabri, T Szidarovszky… - Physical Chemistry …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Developments during the last two decades in nuclear motion theory made it possible to
obtain variational solutions to the time-independent, nuclear-motion Schrödinger equation of …

Advanced quantum and semiclassical methods for simulating photoinduced molecular dynamics and spectroscopy

S Faraji, D Picconi… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular‐level understanding of photoinduced processes is critically important for
breakthroughs in transformative technologies utilizing light, ranging from photomedicine to …

Reaction dynamics of methane with F, O, Cl, and Br on ab initio potential energy surfaces

G Czako, JM Bowman - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2014 - ACS Publications
The bimolecular hydrogen abstraction reactions of methane with atoms have become
benchmark systems to test and extend our knowledge of polyatomic chemical reactivity. We …

Surface hop** modeling of charge and energy transfer in active environments

JM Toldo, MT Do Casal, E Ventura… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
An active environment is any atomic or molecular system changing a chromophore's
nonadiabatic dynamics compared to the isolated molecule. The action of the environment on …

On-the-fly ab initio semiclassical calculation of glycine vibrational spectrum

F Gabas, R Conte, M Ceotto - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We present an on-the-fly ab initio semiclassical study of vibrational energy levels of glycine,
calculated by Fourier transform of the wavepacket correlation function. It is based on a …

[HTML][HTML] An assessment of mean-field mixed semiclassical approaches: Equilibrium populations and algorithm stability

N Bellonzi, A Jain, JE Subotnik - The Journal of chemical physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We study several recent mean-field semiclassical dynamics methods, focusing on the ability
to recover detailed balance for long time (equilibrium) populations. We focus especially on …

A hessian-free method to prevent zero-point energy leakage in classical trajectories

S Mukherjee, M Barbatti - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The problem associated with the zero-point energy (ZPE) leak in classical trajectory
calculations is well known. Since ZPE is a manifestation of the quantum uncertainty …