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Shu Y, Truhlar DG. Generalized Semiclassical Ehrenfest Method: A Route to Wave Function-Free Photochemistry and Nonadiabatic Dynamics with Only Potential Energies and Gradients. J Chem Theory Comput 2024; 20:4396-4426. [PMID: 38819014 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.4c00424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2024]
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We reconsider recent methods by which direct dynamics calculations of electronically nonadiabatic processes can be carried out while requiring only adiabatic potential energies and their gradients. We show that these methods can be understood in terms of a new generalization of the well-known semiclassical Ehrenfest method. This is convenient because it eliminates the need to evaluate electronic wave functions and their matrix elements along the mixed quantum-classical trajectories. The new approximations and procedures enabling this advance are the curvature-driven approximation to the time-derivative coupling, the generalized semiclassical Ehrenfest method, and a new gradient correction scheme called the time-derivative matrix (TDM) scheme. When spin-orbit coupling is present, one can carry out dynamics calculations in the fully adiabatic basis using potential energies and gradients calculated without spin-orbit coupling plus the spin-orbit coupling matrix elements. Even when spin-orbit coupling is neglected, the method is useful because it allows calculations by electronic structure methods for which nonadiabatic coupling vectors are unavailable. In order to place the new considerations in context, the article starts out with a review of background material on trajectory surface hopping, the semiclassical Ehrenfest scheme, and methods for incorporating decoherence. We consider both internal conversion and intersystem crossing. We also review several examples from our group of successful applications of the curvature-driven approximation.
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- Yinan Shu
- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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Champenois EG, List NH, Ware M, Britton M, Bucksbaum PH, Cheng X, Centurion M, Cryan JP, Forbes R, Gabalski I, Hegazy K, Hoffmann MC, Howard AJ, Ji F, Lin MF, Nunes JPF, Shen X, Yang J, Wang X, Martinez TJ, Wolf TJA. Femtosecond Electronic and Hydrogen Structural Dynamics in Ammonia Imaged with Ultrafast Electron Diffraction. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 131:143001. [PMID: 37862660 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.143001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2023] [Revised: 07/06/2023] [Accepted: 08/12/2023] [Indexed: 10/22/2023]
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Directly imaging structural dynamics involving hydrogen atoms by ultrafast diffraction methods is complicated by their low scattering cross sections. Here we demonstrate that megaelectronvolt ultrafast electron diffraction is sufficiently sensitive to follow hydrogen dynamics in isolated molecules. In a study of the photodissociation of gas phase ammonia, we simultaneously observe signatures of the nuclear and corresponding electronic structure changes resulting from the dissociation dynamics in the time-dependent diffraction. Both assignments are confirmed by ab initio simulations of the photochemical dynamics and the resulting diffraction observable. While the temporal resolution of the experiment is insufficient to resolve the dissociation in time, our results represent an important step towards the observation of proton dynamics in real space and time.
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- Elio G Champenois
- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-10044 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA
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- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
- Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
- Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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Shu Y, Zhang L, Wu D, Chen X, Sun S, Truhlar DG. New Gradient Correction Scheme for Electronically Nonadiabatic Dynamics Involving Multiple Spin States. J Chem Theory Comput 2023; 19:2419-2429. [PMID: 37079755 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c01173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/22/2023]
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It has been recommended that the best representation to use for trajectory surface hopping (TSH) calculations is the fully adiabatic basis in which the Hamiltonian is diagonal. Simulations of intersystem crossing processes with conventional TSH methods require an explicit computation of nonadiabatic coupling vectors (NACs) in the molecular-Coulomb-Hamiltonian (MCH) basis, also called the spin-orbit-free basis, in order to compute the gradient in the fully adiabatic basis (also called the diagonal representation). This explicit requirement destroys some of the advantages of the overlap-based algorithms and curvature-driven algorithms that can be used for the most efficient TSH calculations. Therefore, although these algorithms allow one to perform NAC-free simulations for internal conversion processes, one still requires NACs for intersystem crossing. Here, we show that how the NAC requirement is circumvented by a new computation scheme called the time-derivative-matrix scheme.
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- Yinan Shu
- Department of Chemistry and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- School of Energy Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- School of Energy Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P. R. China
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- School of Energy Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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Zhao X, Shu Y, Zhang L, Xu X, Truhlar DG. Direct Nonadiabatic Dynamics of Ammonia with Curvature-Driven Coherent Switching with Decay of Mixing and with Fewest Switches with Time Uncertainty: An Illustration of Population Leaking in Trajectory Surface Hopping Due to Frustrated Hops. J Chem Theory Comput 2023; 19:1672-1685. [PMID: 36877830 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c01260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/08/2023]
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Mixed quantum-classical nonadiabatic dynamics is a widely used approach to simulate molecular dynamics involving multiple electronic states. There are two main categories of mixed quantum-classical nonadiabatic dynamics algorithms, namely, trajectory surface hopping (TSH) in which the trajectory propagates on a single potential energy surface, interrupted by hops, and self-consistent-potential (SCP) methods, such as semiclassical Ehrenfest, in which propagation occurs on a mean-field surface without hops. In this work, we will illustrate an example of severe population leaking in TSH. We emphasize that such leaking is a combined effect of frustrated hops and long-time simulations that drive the final excited-state population toward zero as a function of time. We further show that such leaking can be alleviated-but not eliminated-by the fewest switches with time uncertainty TSH algorithm (here implemented in the SHARC program); the time uncertainty algorithm slows down the leaking process by a factor of 4.1. The population leaking is not present in coherent switching with decay of mixing (CSDM), which is an SCP method with non-Markovian decoherence included. Another result in this paper is that we find very similar results with the original CSDM algorithm, with time-derivative CSDM (tCSDM), and with curvature-driven CSDM (κCSDM). Not only do we find good agreement for electronically nonadiabatic transition probabilities but also we find good agreement of the norms of the effective nonadiabatic couplings (NACs) that are derived from the curvature-driven time-derivative couplings as implemented in κCSDM with the time-dependent norms of the nonadiabatic coupling vectors computed by state-averaged complete-active-space self-consistent field theory.
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- Xiaorui Zhao
- Center for Combustion Energy, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China.,School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- School of Energy Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P. R. China
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- Center for Combustion Energy, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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Wangchingchai P, Yamasaki K, Kohguchi H. Imaging studies of the CH3 fragments formed in the ultraviolet photodissociation of dimethylamine: Role of the parent 3s and 3p Rydberg states. Chem Phys Lett 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2022.139671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Han S, Schröder M, Gatti F, Meyer HD, Lauvergnat D, Yarkony DR, Guo H. Representation of Diabatic Potential Energy Matrices for Multiconfiguration Time-Dependent Hartree Treatments of High-Dimensional Nonadiabatic Photodissociation Dynamics. J Chem Theory Comput 2022; 18:4627-4638. [PMID: 35839299 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Conventional quantum mechanical characterization of photodissociation dynamics is restricted by steep scaling laws with respect to the dimensionality of the system. In this work, we examine the applicability of the multi-configurational time-dependent Hartree (MCTDH) method in treating nonadiabatic photodissociation dynamics in two prototypical systems, taking advantage of its favorable scaling laws. To conform to the sum-of-product form, elements of the ab initio diabatic potential energy matrix (DPEM) are re-expressed using the recently proposed Monte Carlo canonical polyadic decomposition method, with enforcement of proper symmetry. The MCTDH absorption spectra and product branching ratios are shown to compare well with those calculated using conventional grid-based methods, demonstrating its promise for treating high-dimensional nonadiabatic photodissociation problems.
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- Shanyu Han
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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- Theoretische Chemie, Physikalisch Chemisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- ISMO, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay─UMR 8214 CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay, F-91405 Orsay, France
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- Theoretische Chemie, Physikalisch Chemisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Physique UMR8000, Orsay 91405, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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Wang Y, Guo H, Yarkony DR. Internal conversion and intersystem crossing dynamics based on coupled potential energy surfaces with full geometry-dependent spin-orbit and derivative couplings. Nonadiabatic photodissociation dynamics of NH 3(A) leading to the NH(X 3Σ -, a 1Δ) + H 2 channel. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:15060-15067. [PMID: 35696936 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01271e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We simulate the photodissociation of NH3 originating from its first excited singlet state S1 into the NH2 + H (radical) and NH + H2 (molecular) channels. The states considered are the ground singlet state S0, the first excited singlet state S1 and the lowest-lying triplet state T1, which permit for the first time a uniform treatment of the internal conversion and intersystem crossing. The simulations are based on a diabatic potential energy matrix (DPEM) of S0, S1 coupled by a conical intersection seam, as well as a potential energy surface (PES) for T1 coupled by spin-orbit coupling (SOC) to the two singlet states. The DPEM and PES are fitted to ab initio electronic structure data (ESD) including energies, energy gradients, and derivative couplings. The DPEM also defines an adiabatic to diabatic state (AtD) transformation, which is used to transform the singular adiabatic SOC into a smooth function of the nuclear coordinates in the diabatic representation, allowing the diabatic SOC to be fit to an analytical functional form. ESD and SOC data obtained from these surfaces can serve as input for either quantum or semi-classical characterization of the nonadiabatic dynamics. Using the SHARC suite of programs, nonadiabatic simulations based on over 40 000 semi-classical trajectories assess the convergence of our results. The production of NH + H2 is not direct, but is only achieved through a quasi-statistical dissociation mechanism after internal conversion to the ground electronic state. This leads to a much lower yield comparing with the main NH2 + H channel. The NH(X3Σ_) radical produced through the intersystem crossing from S0 to T1 is rare (∼0.2%) compared to NH(a1Δ) due to the process being spin forbidden.
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- Yuchen Wang
- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
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Guan Y, Xie C, Yarkony DR, Guo H. High-fidelity first principles nonadiabaticity: diabatization, analytic representation of global diabatic potential energy matrices, and quantum dynamics. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:24962-24983. [PMID: 34473156 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp03008f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Nonadiabatic dynamics, which goes beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, has increasingly been shown to play an important role in chemical processes, particularly those involving electronically excited states. Understanding multistate dynamics requires rigorous quantum characterization of both electronic and nuclear motion. However, such first principles treatments of multi-dimensional systems have so far been rather limited due to the lack of accurate coupled potential energy surfaces and difficulties associated with quantum dynamics. In this Perspective, we review recent advances in developing high-fidelity analytical diabatic potential energy matrices for quantum dynamical investigations of polyatomic uni- and bi-molecular nonadiabatic processes, by machine learning of high-level ab initio data. Special attention is paid to methods of diabatization, high fidelity construction of multi-state coupled potential energy surfaces and property surfaces, as well as quantum mechanical characterization of nonadiabatic nuclear dynamics. To illustrate the tremendous progress made by these new developments, several examples are discussed, in which direct comparison with quantum state resolved measurements led to either confirmation of the observation or sometimes reinterpretation of the experimental data. The insights gained in these prototypical systems greatly advance our understanding of nonadiabatic dynamics in chemical systems.
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- Yafu Guan
- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Northwest University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710069, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87131, USA.
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Wang Y, Guan Y, Guo H, Yarkony DR. Enabling complete multichannel nonadiabatic dynamics: A global representation of the two-channel coupled, 1,2 1A and 1 3A states of NH 3 using neural networks. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:094121. [PMID: 33685133 DOI: 10.1063/5.0037684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Global coupled three-state two-channel potential energy and property/interaction (dipole and spin-orbit coupling) surfaces for the dissociation of NH3(Ã) into NH + H2 and NH2 + H are reported. The permutational invariant polynomial-neural network approach is used to simultaneously fit and diabatize the electronic Hamiltonian by fitting the energies, energy gradients, and derivative couplings of the two coupled lowest-lying singlet states as well as fitting the energy and energy gradients of the lowest-lying triplet state. The key issue in fitting property matrix elements in the diabatic basis is that the diabatic surfaces must be smooth, that is, the diabatization must remove spikes in the original adiabatic property surfaces attributable to the switch of electronic wavefunctions at the conical intersection seam. Here, we employ the fit potential energy matrix to transform properties in the adiabatic representation to a quasi-diabatic representation and remove the discontinuity near the conical intersection seam. The property matrix elements can then be fit with smooth neural network functions. The coupled potential energy surfaces along with the dipole and spin-orbit coupling surfaces will enable more accurate and complete treatment of optical transitions, as well as nonadiabatic internal conversion and intersystem crossing.
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- Yuchen Wang
- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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Han S, Wang Y, Guan Y, Yarkony DR, Guo H. Impact of Diabolical Singular Points on Nonadiabatic Dynamics and a Remedy: Photodissociation of Ammonia in the First Band. J Chem Theory Comput 2020; 16:6776-6784. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Shanyu Han
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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Lischka H, Shepard R, Müller T, Szalay PG, Pitzer RM, Aquino AJA, Araújo do Nascimento MM, Barbatti M, Belcher LT, Blaudeau JP, Borges I, Brozell SR, Carter EA, Das A, Gidofalvi G, González L, Hase WL, Kedziora G, Kertesz M, Kossoski F, Machado FBC, Matsika S, do Monte SA, Nachtigallová D, Nieman R, Oppel M, Parish CA, Plasser F, Spada RFK, Stahlberg EA, Ventura E, Yarkony DR, Zhang Z. The generality of the GUGA MRCI approach in COLUMBUS for treating complex quantum chemistry. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:134110. [PMID: 32268762 DOI: 10.1063/1.5144267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The core part of the program system COLUMBUS allows highly efficient calculations using variational multireference (MR) methods in the framework of configuration interaction with single and double excitations (MR-CISD) and averaged quadratic coupled-cluster calculations (MR-AQCC), based on uncontracted sets of configurations and the graphical unitary group approach (GUGA). The availability of analytic MR-CISD and MR-AQCC energy gradients and analytic nonadiabatic couplings for MR-CISD enables exciting applications including, e.g., investigations of π-conjugated biradicaloid compounds, calculations of multitudes of excited states, development of diabatization procedures, and furnishing the electronic structure information for on-the-fly surface nonadiabatic dynamics. With fully variational uncontracted spin-orbit MRCI, COLUMBUS provides a unique possibility of performing high-level calculations on compounds containing heavy atoms up to lanthanides and actinides. Crucial for carrying out all of these calculations effectively is the availability of an efficient parallel code for the CI step. Configuration spaces of several billion in size now can be treated quite routinely on standard parallel computer clusters. Emerging developments in COLUMBUS, including the all configuration mean energy multiconfiguration self-consistent field method and the graphically contracted function method, promise to allow practically unlimited configuration space dimensions. Spin density based on the GUGA approach, analytic spin-orbit energy gradients, possibilities for local electron correlation MR calculations, development of general interfaces for nonadiabatic dynamics, and MRCI linear vibronic coupling models conclude this overview.
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- Hans Lischka
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, USA
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Institute for Advanced Simulation, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich 52428, Germany
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- ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Chemistry, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, People's Republic of China
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- Laser and Optics Research Center, Department of Physics, US Air Force Academy, Colorado 80840, USA
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- Departamento de Química, Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22290-270, Brazil
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Office of the Chancellor and Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951405, Los Angeles, California 90095-1405, USA
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- Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah, India
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington 99258, USA
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Straße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, USA
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- Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets, NW, Washington, DC 20057-1227, USA
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- Departamento de Química, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, São José dos Campos 12228-900, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, 1901 N. 13th St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry v.v.i., The Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo nám. 2, 160610 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, USA
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Straße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry, Gottwald Center for the Sciences, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia 23173, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, United Kingdom
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- Departamento de Física, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, São José dos Campos 12228-900, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
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- Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 58059-900 João Pessoa, PB, Brazil
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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- Stanford Research Computing Center, Stanford University, 255 Panama Street, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Guan Y, Yarkony DR. Accurate Neural Network Representation of the Ab Initio Determined Spin-Orbit Interaction in the Diabatic Representation Including the Effects of Conical Intersections. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:1848-1858. [PMID: 32062966 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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A method for fitting ab initio determined spin-orbit coupling interactions, in the Breit-Pauli approximation, based on quasidiabatic representations using neural network fits is reported. The algorithm generalizes our recently reported neural network approach for representing the dipole interaction. The S0, S1, and T1 states of formaldehyde are used as an example. First, the two singlet states S0 and S1 are diabatized with a modified Boys Localization diabatization method. Second, the spin-orbit coupling between singlet and triplet states is transformed to the diabatic representation. This removes the discontinuities in the adiabatic representation. The diabatized spin-orbit couplings are then fit with smooth neural network functions. The analytic representation of spin-orbit coupling interactions in a diabatic basis by neural networks will make accurate full-dimensional quantum dynamical treatment of both internal conversion and intersystem crossing possible, which will help us to gain better understanding of both processes.
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- Yafu Guan
- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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Nelson TR, White AJ, Bjorgaard JA, Sifain AE, Zhang Y, Nebgen B, Fernandez-Alberti S, Mozyrsky D, Roitberg AE, Tretiak S. Non-adiabatic Excited-State Molecular Dynamics: Theory and Applications for Modeling Photophysics in Extended Molecular Materials. Chem Rev 2020; 120:2215-2287. [PMID: 32040312 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 198] [Impact Index Per Article: 49.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
Optically active molecular materials, such as organic conjugated polymers and biological systems, are characterized by strong coupling between electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom. Typically, simulations must go beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation to account for non-adiabatic coupling between excited states. Indeed, non-adiabatic dynamics is commonly associated with exciton dynamics and photophysics involving charge and energy transfer, as well as exciton dissociation and charge recombination. Understanding the photoinduced dynamics in such materials is vital to providing an accurate description of exciton formation, evolution, and decay. This interdisciplinary field has matured significantly over the past decades. Formulation of new theoretical frameworks, development of more efficient and accurate computational algorithms, and evolution of high-performance computer hardware has extended these simulations to very large molecular systems with hundreds of atoms, including numerous studies of organic semiconductors and biomolecules. In this Review, we will describe recent theoretical advances including treatment of electronic decoherence in surface-hopping methods, the role of solvent effects, trivial unavoided crossings, analysis of data based on transition densities, and efficient computational implementations of these numerical methods. We also emphasize newly developed semiclassical approaches, based on the Gaussian approximation, which retain phase and width information to account for significant decoherence and interference effects while maintaining the high efficiency of surface-hopping approaches. The above developments have been employed to successfully describe photophysics in a variety of molecular materials.
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- Tammie R Nelson
- Theoretical Division , Los Alamos National Laboratory , Los Alamos , New Mexico 87545 , United States
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- Theoretical Division , Los Alamos National Laboratory , Los Alamos , New Mexico 87545 , United States
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- Theoretical Division , Los Alamos National Laboratory , Los Alamos , New Mexico 87545 , United States
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- Theoretical Division , Los Alamos National Laboratory , Los Alamos , New Mexico 87545 , United States.,U.S. Army Research Laboratory , Aberdeen Proving Ground , Maryland 21005 , United States
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- Theoretical Division , Los Alamos National Laboratory , Los Alamos , New Mexico 87545 , United States
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- Theoretical Division , Los Alamos National Laboratory , Los Alamos , New Mexico 87545 , United States
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- Theoretical Division , Los Alamos National Laboratory , Los Alamos , New Mexico 87545 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Florida , Gainesville , Florida 32611 , United States
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- Theoretical Division , Los Alamos National Laboratory , Los Alamos , New Mexico 87545 , United States
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Guan Y, Guo H, Yarkony DR. Extending the Representation of Multistate Coupled Potential Energy Surfaces To Include Properties Operators Using Neural Networks: Application to the 1,21A States of Ammonia. J Chem Theory Comput 2019; 16:302-313. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Yafu Guan
- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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Guan Y, Guo H, Yarkony DR. Neural network based quasi-diabatic Hamiltonians with symmetry adaptation and a correct description of conical intersections. J Chem Phys 2019; 150:214101. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5099106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Yafu Guan
- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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Wang Y, Xie C, Guo H, Yarkony DR. A Quasi-Diabatic Representation of the 1,21A States of Methylamine. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:5231-5241. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b03801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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- Yuchen Wang
- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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Xie C, Malbon CL, Xie D, Yarkony DR, Guo H. Nonadiabatic Dynamics in Photodissociation of Hydroxymethyl in the 32A(3px) Rydberg State: A Nine-Dimensional Quantum Study. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:1937-1944. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b12184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Changjian Xie
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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Lenzen T, Manthe U. Vibronically and spin-orbit coupled diabatic potentials for X(P) + CH4→ HX + CH3reactions: General theory and application for X(P) = F(2P). J Chem Phys 2019; 150:064102. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5063907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Tim Lenzen
- Theoretische Chemie, Fakultät für Chemie, Universität Bielefeld, Universitätsstraße 25, D-33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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- Theoretische Chemie, Fakultät für Chemie, Universität Bielefeld, Universitätsstraße 25, D-33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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Guan Y, Zhang DH, Guo H, Yarkony DR. Representation of coupled adiabatic potential energy surfaces using neural network based quasi-diabatic Hamiltonians: 1,2 2A′ states of LiFH. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:14205-14213. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp06598e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A general algorithm for determining diabatic representations from adiabatic energies, energy gradients and derivative couplings using neural networks is introduced.
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- Yafu Guan
- Department of Chemistry
- Johns Hopkins University
- Baltimore
- USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics and Center for Theoretical Computational Chemistry
- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Dalian 116023
- People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
- University of New Mexico
- Albuquerque
- USA
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Han S, Xie D, Guo H. Modified Gaussian Wave Packet Method for Calculating Initial State Wave Functions in Photodissociation. J Chem Theory Comput 2018; 14:5527-5534. [PMID: 30234984 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A modified Gaussian wave packet relaxation method is proposed to calculate the ground state wave function using an expansion of frozen Gaussian wave packets. This new procedure consists of two steps. In the first step, a multidimensional Gaussian product placed at the ground state equilibrium geometry is propagated in imaginary time. The relaxation optimizes the widths of the one-dimensional Gaussians. In the second step, additional Gaussian wave packets with the same widths are placed near the equilibrium geometry, and the corresponding expansion coefficients are optimized using the same relaxation method. This new algorithm is tested in photodissociation of NOCl and NH3, and the results show good agreement with the exact results in the energy, wave function, and absorption spectrum. In particular, the highly structured absorption spectrum of NH3 is reproduced, underscoring the accuracy of both the initial wave packet and the excited state propagation.
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- Shanyu Han
- Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Nanjing University , Nanjing 210093 , China.,Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , University of New Mexico , Albuquerque , New Mexico 87131 , United States
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- Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Nanjing University , Nanjing 210093 , China
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , University of New Mexico , Albuquerque , New Mexico 87131 , United States
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Xie C, Guo H. Active vs. spectator modes in nonadiabatic photodissociation dynamics of the hydroxymethyl radical via the 2 2A(3s) Rydberg state. J Chem Phys 2018; 148:044305. [PMID: 29390808 DOI: 10.1063/1.5017737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The choice of the active degrees of freedom (DOFs) is a pivotal issue in a reduced-dimensional model of quantum dynamics when a full-dimensional one is not feasible. Here, several five-dimensional (5D) models are used to investigate the nonadiabatic photodissociation dynamics of the hydroxymethyl (CH2OH) radical, which possesses nine internal DOFs, in its lowest absorption band. A normal-mode based scheme is used to identify the active and spectator modes, and its predictions are confirmed by 5D quantum dynamical calculations. Our results underscore the important role of the CO stretching mode in the photodissociation dynamics of CH2OH, originating from the photo-induced promotion of an electron from the half-occupied π*CO antibonding orbital to a carbon Rydberg orbital.
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- Changjian Xie
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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Lenzen T, Manthe U. Neural network based coupled diabatic potential energy surfaces for reactive scattering. J Chem Phys 2017; 147:084105. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4997995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Tim Lenzen
- Theoretische Chemie, Fakultät für Chemie, Universität Bielefeld, Universitätsstraße 25, D-33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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- Theoretische Chemie, Fakultät für Chemie, Universität Bielefeld, Universitätsstraße 25, D-33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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Xie C, Malbon C, Yarkony DR, Guo H. Nonadiabatic photodissociation dynamics of the hydroxymethyl radical via the 22A(3s) Rydberg state: A four-dimensional quantum study. J Chem Phys 2017; 146:224306. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4985147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Changjian Xie
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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Xie C, Ma J, Zhu X, Yarkony DR, Xie D, Guo H. Nonadiabatic Tunneling in Photodissociation of Phenol. J Am Chem Soc 2016; 138:7828-31. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b03288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Changjian Xie
- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
- Institute
of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic
Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Institute
of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610065, China
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- Department
of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Institute
of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic
Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
- Synergetic
Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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- Xiaolei Zhu
- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD, USA
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Epshtein M, Yifrach Y, Portnov A, Bar I. Control of Nonadiabatic Passage through a Conical Intersection by a Dynamic Resonance. J Phys Chem Lett 2016; 7:1717-1724. [PMID: 27101349 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Nonadiabatic processes, dominated by dynamic passage of reactive fluxes through conical intersections (CIs), are considered to be appealing means for manipulating reaction paths, particularly via initial vibrational preparation. Nevertheless, obtaining direct experimental evidence of whether specific-mode excitation affects the passage at the CI is challenging, requiring well-resolved time- or frequency-domain experiments. Here promotion of methylamine-d2 (CH3ND2) molecules to spectral-resolved rovibronic states on the excited S1 potential energy surface, coupled to sensitive D photofragment probing, allowed us to follow the N-D bond fission dynamics. The branching ratios between slow and fast D photofragments and the internal energies of the CH3ND(X̃) photofragments confirm correlated anomalies for predissociation initiated from specific rovibronic states. These anomalies reflect the existence of a dynamic resonance that strongly depends on the energy of the initially excited rovibronic states, the evolving vibrational mode on the repulsive S1 part during N-D bond elongation, and the manipulated passage through the CI that leads to CH3ND radicals excited with C-N-D bending. This resonance plays an important role in the bifurcation dynamics at the CI and can be foreseen to exist in other photoinitiated processes and to control their outcome.
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- Michael Epshtein
- Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
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- Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
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- Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
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- Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
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In this review, we survey the latest advances in theoretical understanding of bimolecular reaction dynamics in the past decade. The remarkable recent progress in this field has been driven by more accurate and efficient ab initio electronic structure theory, effective potential-energy surface fitting techniques, and novel quantum scattering algorithms. Quantum mechanical characterization of bimolecular reactions continues to uncover interesting dynamical phenomena in atom-diatom reactions and beyond, reaching an unprecedented level of sophistication. In tandem with experimental explorations, these theoretical developments have greatly advanced our understanding of key issues in reaction dynamics, such as microscopic reaction mechanisms, mode specificity, product energy disposal, influence of reactive resonances, and nonadiabatic effects.
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- Dong H Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China; .,Center for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131;
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This Perspective addresses the use of coupled diabatic potential energy surfaces (PESs) together with rigorous quantum dynamics in full or reduced dimensional coordinate spaces to obtain accurate solutions to problems in nonadiabatic dynamics.
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- Hua Guo
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
- University of New Mexico
- Albuquerque
- USA
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Zhu X, Yarkony DR. On the Construction of Property Based Diabatizations: Diabolical Singular Points. J Phys Chem A 2015; 119:12383-91. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b07705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Xiaolei Zhu
- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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Han SY, Zhou LS, Xie DQ. State to State Photodissociation Dynamics of Vibrationally Excited D2O in B Band. CHINESE J CHEM PHYS 2015. [DOI: 10.1063/1674-0068/28/cjcp1506138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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