Machine learning for electronically excited states of molecules

J Westermayr, P Marquetand - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Electronically excited states of molecules are at the heart of photochemistry, photophysics,
as well as photobiology and also play a role in material science. Their theoretical description …

Non-adiabatic excited-state molecular dynamics: Theory and applications for modeling photophysics in extended molecular materials

TR Nelson, AJ White, JA Bjorgaard, AE Sifain… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Optically active molecular materials, such as organic conjugated polymers and biological
systems, are characterized by strong coupling between electronic and vibrational degrees of …

Recent advances and perspectives on nonadiabatic mixed quantum–classical dynamics

R Crespo-Otero, M Barbatti - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Nonadiabatic mixed quantum–classical (NA-MQC) dynamics methods form a class of
computational theoretical approaches in quantum chemistry tailored to investigate the time …

Electronic structure methods for the description of nonadiabatic effects and conical intersections

S Matsika - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nonadiabatic effects are ubiquitous in photophysics and photochemistry, and therefore,
many theoretical developments have been made to properly describe them. Conical …

Mixed quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical molecular dynamics simulations of biological systems in ground and electronically excited states

E Brunk, U Rothlisberger - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The quantum nature of electrons and nuclei is manifested in countless biological events
including the rearrangements of electrons in biochemical reactions, electron and proton …

Time-dependent density-functional theory for molecules and molecular solids

ME Casida - Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, 2009 - Elsevier
Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) has become a well-established part of
the modern theoretical chemist's toolbox for treating electronic excited states. Yet, though …

Theory of excited state decays and optical spectra: application to polyatomic molecules

Y Niu, Q Peng, C Deng, X Gao… - The Journal of Physical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
General formalism of absorption and emission spectra, and of radiative and nonradiative
decay rates are derived using a thermal vibration correlation function formalism for the …

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 …

Surface hopping dynamics using a locally diabatic formalism: Charge transfer in the ethylene dimer cation and excited state dynamics in the 2-pyridone dimer

F Plasser, G Granucci, J Pittner, M Barbatti… - The Journal of …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, the advantages of a locally diabatic propagation of the electronic wave function
in surface hopping dynamics proceeding on adiabatic surfaces are presented providing very …

Trajectory‐based nonadiabatic dynamics with time‐dependent density functional theory

BFE Curchod, U Rothlisberger, I Tavernelli - ChemPhysChem, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the fate of an electronically excited molecule constitutes an important task for
theoretical chemistry, and practical implications range from the interpretation of atto‐and …