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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Incorporating Lindblad decay dynamics into mixed quantum-classical simulations

ER Koessler, A Mandal, P Huo - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We derive the L-mean-field Ehrenfest (MFE) method to incorporate Lindblad jump operator
dynamics into the MFE approach. We map the density matrix evolution of Lindblad dynamics …

Quasi-diabatic representation for nonadiabatic dynamics propagation

A Mandal, SS Yamijala, P Huo - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We develop a nonadiabatic dynamics propagation scheme that allows interfacing diabatic
quantum dynamics methods with commonly used adiabatic electronic structure calculations …

Non-adiabatic molecular dynamics with ΔSCF excited states

E Pradhan, K Sato, AV Akimov - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Accurate modelling of nonadiabatic transitions and electron–phonon interactions in
extended systems is essential for understanding the charge and energy transfer in …

[HTML][HTML] Nonadiabatic molecular dynamics simulations based on time-dependent density functional tight-binding method

X Wu, S Wen, H Song, T Frauenheim… - The Journal of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Nonadiabatic excited state molecular dynamics underpin many photophysical and
photochemical phenomena, such as exciton dynamics, and charge separation and …

The landscape of computational approaches for artificial photosynthesis

KR Yang, GW Kyro, VS Batista - Nature Computational Science, 2023 - nature.com
Artificial photosynthesis is an attractive strategy for converting solar energy into fuels, largely
because the Earth receives enough solar energy in one hour to meet humanity's energy …

Photoinduced electron injection in a fully solvated dye-sensitized photoanode: a dynamical semiempirical study

JP Menzel, A Papadopoulos, J Belić… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Dye-sensitized solar cells and dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells have attracted
much interest in recent years for solar energy conversion. More effort is still required to …

Modeling optical spectra of large organic systems using real-time propagation of semiempirical effective Hamiltonians

S Ghosh, A Andersen, L Gagliardi… - Journal of Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We present an implementation of a time-dependent semiempirical method (INDO/S) in
NWChem using real-time (RT) propagation to address, in principle, the entire spectrum of …

Charge generation in organic solar cells: Interplay of quantum dynamics, decoherence, and recombination

G Candiotto, A Torres, KT Mazon… - The Journal of Physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The dynamics of photoinduced charge generation is studied for donor–acceptor (D–A)
organic interfaces, with focus on the interplay of quantum dynamics, decoherence effects …