Surface hopping modeling of charge and energy transfer in active environments

JM Toldo, MT Do Casal, E Ventura… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
An active environment is any atomic or molecular system changing a chromophore's
nonadiabatic dynamics compared to the isolated molecule. The action of the environment on …

First-principles approach for coupled quantum dynamics of electrons and protons in heterogeneous systems

J Xu, R Zhou, V Blum, TE Li, S Hammes-Schiffer… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The coupled quantum dynamics of electrons and protons is ubiquitous in many dynamical
processes involving light-matter interaction, such as solar energy conversion in chemical …

Nuclear–electronic orbital quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical real-time dynamics

M Chow, TE Li, S Hammes-Schiffer - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Simulating the nuclear–electronic quantum dynamics of large-scale molecular systems in
the condensed phase is key for studying biologically and chemically important processes …

Nuclear–electronic orbital QM/MM approach: Geometry optimizations and molecular dynamics

M Chow, E Lambros, X Li… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hybrid quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) methods allow simulations of
chemical reactions in atomistic solvent and heterogeneous environments such as proteins …

Constrained nuclear-electronic orbital density functional theory with a dielectric continuum solvent model

X Xu - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2023 - ACS Publications
Solvent effects are crucial for simulating chemical and biological processes in solutions. The
continuum solvation model is widely used for incorporating solvent effects with different …

Simultaneous Optimization of Nuclear–Electronic Orbitals

A Liu, M Chow, A Wildman, MJ Frisch… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Accurate modeling of important nuclear quantum effects, such as nuclear delocalization,
zero-point energy, and tunneling, as well as non-Born–Oppenheimer effects, requires …

Assessing Implicit and Explicit Polarizable Solvation Models for Nuclear–Electronic Orbital Systems: Quantum Proton Polarization and Solvation Energetics

E Lambros, B Link, M Chow, F Lipparini… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Accurate simulations of many chemical processes require the inclusion of both nuclear
quantum effects and a solvent environment. The nuclear–electronic orbital (NEO) approach …

A brand-new type of excited-state proton transfer (ESIPT) molecule based on sulfoxide/sulfenic acid tautomerism

R Su, Z Huang - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The excited-state proton transfer (ESIPT) behavior of organic fluorophores has attracted
much attention due to their unique photophysical properties. So far, ESIPT studies have …

Solvent Induced Proton Polarization within the Nuclear− Electronic Orbital Framework

E Lambros, B Link, M Chow… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
To explicitly account for nuclear quantum effects and solvent environments in simulations of
chemical processes, the nuclear-electronic orbital approach is coupled with a polarizable …

Lagrangian formulation of nuclear–electronic orbital Ehrenfest dynamics with real-time TDDFT for extended periodic systems

J Xu, R Zhou, TE Li, S Hammes-Schiffer… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We present a Lagrangian-based implementation of Ehrenfest dynamics with nuclear–
electronic orbital (NEO) theory and real-time time-dependent density functional theory for …