Theoretical exploration of ultrafast dynamics in atomic clusters: Analysis and control

V Bonačić-Koutecký, R Mitrić - Chemical reviews, 2005‏ - ACS Publications
Theoretical investigations of femtosecond dynamical processes in elemental clusters and
their active control by designed light fields are of fundamental importance for learning how …

Introductory lecture: Nonadiabatic effects in chemical dynamics

AW Jasper, C Zhu, S Nangia, DG Truhlar - Faraday Discussions, 2004‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Recent progress in the theoretical treatment of electronically nonadiabatic processes is
discussed. First we discuss the generalized Born–Oppenheimer approximation, which …

Fewest-switches with time uncertainty: A modified trajectory surface-hop** algorithm with better accuracy for classically forbidden electronic transitions

AW Jasper, SN Stechmann, DG Truhlar - The Journal of chemical …, 2002‏ - pubs.aip.org
We present a modification of Tully's fewest-switches (TFS) trajectory surface-hop**
algorithm (also called molecular dynamics with quantum transitions) that is called the fewest …

Wave-packet interferometry and molecular state reconstruction: Spectroscopic adventures on the left-hand side of the Schrödinger equation

JA Cina - Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem., 2008‏ - annualreviews.org
This article summarizes theoretical studies of molecular state determination by wave-packet
interferometry (WPI) and recounts some recent experimental applications of molecular WPI …

Nonadiabatic dynamics with coupled trajectories

C Pieroni, F Agostini - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
In this paper, we discuss coupled-trajectory schemes for molecular-dynamics simulations of
excited-state processes. New coupled-trajectory strategies to capture decoherence effects …

Surface hop** by consensus

CC Martens - The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
We present a new stochastic surface hop** method for modeling molecular dynamics with
electronic transitions. The approach, consensus surface hop** (CSH), is a numerical …

Nonadiabatic dynamics with classical trajectories: The problem of an initial coherent superposition of electronic states

E Villaseco Arribas, NT Maitra, F Agostini - The Journal of Chemical …, 2024‏ - pubs.aip.org
Advances in coherent light sources and development of pump–probe techniques in recent
decades have opened the way to study electronic motion in its natural time scale. When an …

A derivation of the mixed quantum-classical Liouville equation from the influence functional formalism

Q Shi, E Geva - The Journal of chemical physics, 2004‏ - pubs.aip.org
We show that the mixed quantum-classical Liouville equation is equivalent to linearizing the
forward-backward action in the influence functional. Derivations are provided in terms of …

Surface hop** without momentum jumps: A quantum-trajectory-based approach to nonadiabatic dynamics

CC Martens - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
We describe a new method for simulating nonadiabatic dynamics using stochastic
trajectories. The method, which we call quantum trajectory surface hop** (QTSH), is a …

Applying direct molecular dynamics to non‐adiabatic systems

GA Worth, MA Robb - The Role of Degenerate States in …, 2002‏ - Wiley Online Library
In large molecules, the electronic ground‐state and the first excited state are degenerate in
many nuclear configurations. At these configurations, termed conical intersections …