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Bian X, Subotnik JE. Angular Momentum Transfer between a Molecular System and a Continuous Circularly Polarized Light Field within a Semiclassical Born-Oppenheimer Surface Hopping Framework. J Chem Theory Comput 2024. [PMID: 39052490 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.4c00225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/27/2024]
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We simulate semiclassically angular momentum transfer for a molecular system subject to a circularly polarized light (CPL) field either moving along a single Born-Oppenheimer (BO) surface or moving along multiple BO surfaces. Both sets of simulations are able to conserve the total angular momentum around the propagation direction of the CPL field, the former requiring a Berry force and the latter requiring a surface parametrized by both nuclear position and momentum (a so-called phase-space approach). Our results provide new insight into the nature of semiclassical nonadiabatic dynamics methods and further demonstrate the power of such methods to capture angular momentum transfer between different media, highlighting the need for accurate algorithms that conserve the total angular momentum.
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Affiliation(s)
- Xuezhi Bian
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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Gay-Balmaz F, Tronci C. Complex Fluid Models of Mixed Quantum-Classical Dynamics. JOURNAL OF NONLINEAR SCIENCE 2024; 34:81. [PMID: 38966687 PMCID: PMC11219418 DOI: 10.1007/s00332-024-10044-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2023] [Accepted: 05/08/2024] [Indexed: 07/06/2024]
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Several methods in nonadiabatic molecular dynamics are based on Madelung's hydrodynamic description of nuclear motion, while the electronic component is treated as a finite-dimensional quantum system. In this context, the quantum potential leads to severe computational challenges and one often seeks to neglect its contribution, thereby approximating nuclear motion as classical. The resulting model couples classical hydrodynamics for the nuclei to the quantum motion of the electronic component, leading to the structure of a complex fluid system. This type of mixed quantum-classical fluid models has also appeared in solvation dynamics to describe the coupling between liquid solvents and the quantum solute molecule. While these approaches represent a promising direction, their mathematical structure requires a certain care. In some cases, challenging higher-order gradients make these equations hardly tractable. In other cases, these models are based on phase-space formulations that suffer from well-known consistency issues. Here, we present a new complex fluid system that resolves these difficulties. Unlike common approaches, the current system is obtained by applying the fluid closure at the level of the action principle of the original phase-space model. As a result, the system inherits a Hamiltonian structure and retains energy/momentum balance. After discussing some of its structural properties and dynamical invariants, we illustrate the model in the case of pure-dephasing dynamics. We conclude by presenting some invariant planar models.
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- François Gay-Balmaz
- Division of Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
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Tao Z, Bian X, Wu Y, Rawlinson J, Littlejohn RG, Subotnik JE. Total angular momentum conservation in Ehrenfest dynamics with a truncated basis of adiabatic states. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:054104. [PMID: 38310474 DOI: 10.1063/5.0177778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 02/05/2024] Open
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We show that standard Ehrenfest dynamics does not conserve linear and angular momentum when using a basis of truncated adiabatic states. However, we also show that previously proposed effective Ehrenfest equations of motion [M. Amano and K. Takatsuka, "Quantum fluctuation of electronic wave-packet dynamics coupled with classical nuclear motions," J. Chem. Phys. 122, 084113 (2005) and V. Krishna, "Path integral formulation for quantum nonadiabatic dynamics and the mixed quantum classical limit," J. Chem. Phys. 126, 134107 (2007)] involving the non-Abelian Berry force do maintain momentum conservation. As a numerical example, we investigate the Kramers doublet of the methoxy radical using generalized Hartree-Fock with spin-orbit coupling and confirm that angular momentum is conserved with the proper equations of motion. Our work makes clear some of the limitations of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation when using ab initio electronic structure theory to treat systems with unpaired electronic spin degrees of freedom, and we demonstrate that Ehrenfest dynamics can offer much improved, qualitatively correct results.
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Affiliation(s)
- Zhen Tao
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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Wu Y, Rawlinson J, Littlejohn RG, Subotnik JE. Linear and angular momentum conservation in surface hopping methods. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:024119. [PMID: 38205852 DOI: 10.1063/5.0179599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2023] [Accepted: 11/29/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024] Open
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We demonstrate that, for systems with spin-orbit coupling and an odd number of electrons, the standard fewest switches surface hopping algorithm does not conserve the total linear or angular momentum. This lack of conservation arises not so much from the hopping direction (which is easily adjusted) but more generally from propagating adiabatic dynamics along surfaces that are not time reversible. We show that one solution to this problem is to run along eigenvalues of phase-space electronic Hamiltonians H(R, P) (i.e., electronic Hamiltonians that depend on both nuclear position and momentum) with an electronic-nuclear coupling Γ · P [see Eq. (25)], and we delineate the conditions that must be satisfied by the operator Γ. The present results should be extremely useful as far as developing new semiclassical approaches that can treat systems where the nuclear, electronic orbital, and electronic spin degrees of freedom altogether are all coupled together, hopefully including systems displaying the chiral-induced spin selectivity effect.
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- Yanze Wu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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Climent C, Schelter EJ, Waldeck DH, Vinogradov SA, Subotnik JE. On the circularly polarized luminescence of individual triplet sublevels. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:134304. [PMID: 37791627 DOI: 10.1063/5.0159932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2023] [Accepted: 09/17/2023] [Indexed: 10/05/2023] Open
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We discuss the possibility of using circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) as a tool to probe individual triplet spin sublevels that are populated nonadiabatically following photoexcitation. This study is motivated by a mechanism proposed for chirality-induced spin selectivity in which coupled electronic-nuclear dynamics may lead to a non-statistical population of the three triplet sublevels in chiral systems. We find that low-temperature CPL should aid in quantifying the exact spin state/s populated through coupled electronic-nuclear motion in chiral molecules.
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- Clàudia Climent
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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Athavale V, Bian X, Tao Z, Wu Y, Qiu T, Rawlinson J, Littlejohn RG, Subotnik JE. Surface hopping, electron translation factors, electron rotation factors, momentum conservation, and size consistency. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:114120. [PMID: 37728203 DOI: 10.1063/5.0160965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2023] [Accepted: 08/11/2023] [Indexed: 09/21/2023] Open
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For a system without spin-orbit coupling, the (i) nuclear plus electronic linear momentum and (ii) nuclear plus orbital electronic angular momentum are good quantum numbers. Thus, when a molecular system undergoes a nonadiabatic transition, there should be no change in the total linear or angular momentum. Now, the standard surface hopping algorithm ignores the electronic momentum and indirectly equates the momentum of the nuclear degrees of freedom to the total momentum. However, even with this simplification, the algorithm still does not conserve either the nuclear linear or the nuclear angular momenta. Here, we show that one way to address these failures is to dress the derivative couplings (i.e., the hopping directions) in two ways: (i) we disallow changes in the nuclear linear momentum by working in a translating basis (which is well known and leads to electron translation factors) and (ii) we disallow changes in the nuclear angular momentum by working in a basis that rotates around the center of mass [which is not well-known and leads to a novel, rotationally removable component of the derivative coupling that we will call electron rotation factors below, cf. Eq. (96)]. The present findings should be helpful in the short term as far as interpreting surface hopping calculations for singlet systems (without spin) and then developing the new surface hopping algorithm in the long term for systems where one cannot ignore the electronic orbital and/or spin angular momentum.
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Affiliation(s)
- Vishikh Athavale
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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Zhou Z, Wu Y, Bian X, Subotnik JE. Nonadiabatic Dynamics in a Continuous Circularly Polarized Laser Field with Floquet Phase-Space Surface Hopping. J Chem Theory Comput 2023; 19:718-732. [PMID: 36655857 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Nonadiabatic chemical reactions involving continuous circularly polarized light (cw CPL) have not attracted as much attention as dynamics in unpolarized/linearly polarized light. However, including circularly (in contrast to linearly) polarized light allows one to effectively introduce a complex-valued time-dependent Hamiltonian, which offers a new path for control or exploration through the introduction of Berry forces. Here, we investigate several inexpensive semiclassical approaches for modeling such nonadiabatic dynamics in the presence of a time-dependent complex-valued Hamiltonian, beginning with a straightforward instantaneous adiabatic fewest-switches surface hopping (IA-FSSH) approach (where the electronic states depend on position and time), continuing to a standard Floquet fewest switches surface hopping (F-FSSH) approach (where the electronic states depend on position and frequency), and ending with an exotic Floquet phase-space surface hopping (F-PSSH) approach (where the electronic states depend on position, frequency, and momentum). Using a set of model systems with time-dependent complex-valued Hamiltonians, we show that the Floquet phase-space adiabats are the optimal choice of basis as far as accounting for Berry phase effects and delivering accuracy. Thus, the F-PSSH algorithm sets the stage for future modeling of nonadiabatic dynamics under strong externally pumped circular polarization.
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- Zeyu Zhou
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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Wu Y, Subotnik JE. A quantum-classical Liouville formalism in a preconditioned basis and its connection with phase-space surface hopping. J Chem Phys 2023; 158:024115. [PMID: 36641414 DOI: 10.1063/5.0124835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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We revisit a recent proposal to model nonadiabatic problems with a complex-valued Hamiltonian through a phase-space surface hopping (PSSH) algorithm employing a pseudo-diabatic basis. Here, we show that such a pseudo-diabatic PSSH (PD-PSSH) ansatz is consistent with a quantum-classical Liouville equation (QCLE) that can be derived following a preconditioning process, and we demonstrate that a proper PD-PSSH algorithm is able to capture some geometric magnetic effects (whereas the standard fewest switches surface hopping approach cannot capture such effects). We also find that a preconditioned QCLE can outperform the standard QCLE in certain cases, highlighting the fact that there is no unique QCLE. Finally, we also point out that one can construct a mean-field Ehrenfest algorithm using a phase-space representation similar to what is done for PSSH. These findings would appear extremely helpful as far as understanding and simulating nonadiabatic dynamics with complex-valued Hamiltonians and/or spin degeneracy.
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- Yanze Wu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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Bian X, Wu Y, Rawlinson J, Littlejohn RG, Subotnik JE. Modeling Spin-Dependent Nonadiabatic Dynamics with Electronic Degeneracy: A Phase-Space Surface-Hopping Method. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:7398-7404. [PMID: 35926097 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Nuclear Berry curvature effects emerge from electronic spin degeneracy and can lead to nontrivial spin-dependent (nonadiabatic) nuclear dynamics. However, such effects are not captured fully by any current mixed quantum-classical method such as fewest-switches surface hopping. In this work, we present a phase-space surface-hopping (PSSH) approach to simulate singlet-triplet intersystem crossing dynamics. We show that with a simple pseudodiabatic ansatz, a PSSH algorithm can capture the relevant Berry curvature effects and make predictions in agreement with exact quantum dynamics for a simple singlet-triplet model Hamiltonian. Thus, this approach represents an important step toward simulating photochemical and spin processes concomitantly, as relevant to intersystem crossing and spin-lattice relaxation dynamics.
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Affiliation(s)
- Xuezhi Bian
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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