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 …

Multireference approaches for excited states of molecules

H Lischka, D Nachtigallova, AJA Aquino… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Understanding the properties of electronically excited states is a challenging task that
becomes increasingly important for numerous applications in chemistry, molecular physics …

Theoretical modeling of singlet fission

D Casanova - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Singlet fission is a photophysical reaction in which a singlet excited electronic state splits
into two spin-triplet states. Singlet fission was discovered more than 50 years ago, but the …

Quantum mechanical studies on the photophysics and the photochemistry of nucleic acids and nucleobases

R Improta, F Santoro, L Blancafort - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
The photophysics and photochemistry of DNA is of great importance due to the potential
damage of the genetic code by UV light. Quantum mechanical studies have played a key …

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 …

Understanding the surface hopping view of electronic transitions and decoherence

JE Subotnik, A Jain, B Landry, A Petit… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
We present a current, up-to-date review of the surface hopping methodology for solving
nonadiabatic problems, 25 years after Tully published the fewest switches surface hopping …

Newton-X platform: New software developments for surface hopping and nuclear ensembles

M Barbatti, M Bondanza, R Crespo-Otero… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Newton-X is an open-source computational platform to perform nonadiabatic molecular
dynamics based on surface hopping and spectrum simulations using the nuclear ensemble …

New tools for the systematic analysis and visualization of electronic excitations. II. Applications

F Plasser, SA Bäppler, M Wormit… - The Journal of chemical …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The excited states of a diverse set of molecules are examined using a collection of newly
implemented analysis methods. These examples expose the particular power of three of …

Efficient and flexible computation of many-electron wave function overlaps

F Plasser, M Ruckenbauer, S Mai… - Journal of chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
A new algorithm for the computation of the overlap between many-electron wave functions is
described. This algorithm allows for the extensive use of recurring intermediates and thus …