Density-functional tight-binding: basic concepts and applications to molecules and clusters

F Spiegelman, N Tarrat, J Cuny, L Dontot… - … in physics: X, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The scope of this article is to present an overview of the Density Functional based Tight
Binding (DFTB) method and its applications. The paper introduces the basics of DFTB and …

Modeling nonadiabatic dynamics in condensed matter materials: some recent advances and applications

B Smith, AV Akimov - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This review focuses on recent developments in the field of nonadiabatic molecular dynamics
(NA-MD), with particular attention given to condensed-matter systems. NA-MD simulations …

Nonadiabatic Exciton Dynamics and Energy Gradients in the Framework of FMO-LC-TDDFTB

R Einsele, R Mitrić - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2024 - ACS Publications
We introduce a novel methodology for simulating the excited-state dynamics of extensive
molecular aggregates in the framework of the long-range corrected time-dependent density …

Quantum dynamical simulations of intra-chain exciton diffusion in an oligo (para-phenylene vinylene) chain at finite temperature

F Di Maiolo, D Brey, R Binder… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We report on quantum dynamical simulations of exciton diffusion in an oligo (para-
phenylene vinylene) chain segment with 20 repeat units (OPV-20) at finite temperature …

Trajectory surface hopping nonadiabatic molecular dynamics with Kohn–Sham ΔSCF for condensed-phase systems

M Malis, S Luber - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2020 - ACS Publications
We present an efficient approach for surface hopping-based nonadiabatic dynamics in the
condensed phase. For the systems studied, a restricted Kohn–Sham orbital formulation of …

Excimer formation dynamics in the isolated tetracene dimer

J Hoche, M Flock, X Miao, LN Philipp, M Wenzel… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The understanding of excimer formation and its interplay with the singlet-correlated triplet
pair state 1 (TT) is of high significance for the development of efficient organic electronics …

Analytical excited state gradients for time-dependent density functional theory plus tight binding (TDDFT+ TB)

S Havenridge, R Rüger, CM Aikens - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Understanding photoluminescent mechanisms has become essential for photocatalytic,
biological, and electronic applications. Unfortunately, analyzing excited state potential …

Visible Light Induced Exciton Dynamics and trans-to-cis Isomerization in Azobenzene Aggregates: Insights from Surface Hopping/Semiempirical Configuration …

E Titov - ACS omega, 2024 - ACS Publications
Assemblies of photochromic molecules feature exciton states, which govern photochemical
and photophysical processes in multichromophoric systems. Understanding the …

Mechanisms of fluorescence quenching in prototypical aggregation-induced emission systems: excited state dynamics with TD-DFTB

T Tran, A Prlj, KH Lin, D Hollas… - Physical Chemistry …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
A recent implementation of time-dependent tight-binding density functional theory is
employed in excited state molecular dynamics for the investigation of the fluorescence …

Non-adiabatic molecular dynamics investigation of the size dependence of the electronic relaxation in polyacenes

E Posenitskiy, M Rapacioli, B Lepetit… - Physical Chemistry …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The Tully's fewest switches surface hopping algorithm is implemented within the framework
of the time-dependent density functional based tight binding method (TD-DFTB) to simulate …