Theoretical advances in polariton chemistry and molecular cavity quantum electrodynamics

A Mandal, MAD Taylor, BM Weight… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
When molecules are coupled to an optical cavity, new light–matter hybrid states, so-called
polaritons, are formed due to quantum light–matter interactions. With the experimental …

Perspective on Theoretical and Experimental Advances in Atmospheric Photochemistry

BFE Curchod, AJ Orr-Ewing - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2024 - ACS Publications
Research that explores the chemistry of Earth's atmosphere is central to the current
understanding of global challenges such as climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion …

What controls the quality of photodynamical simulations? Electronic structure versus nonadiabatic algorithm

J Janoš, P Slavíček - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The field of nonadiabatic dynamics has matured over the last decade with a range of
algorithms and electronic structure methods available at the moment. While the community …

Nonadiabatic dynamics with coupled trajectories

C Pieroni, F Agostini - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In this paper, we discuss coupled-trajectory schemes for molecular-dynamics simulations of
excited-state processes. New coupled-trajectory strategies to capture decoherence effects …

Quantum Quality with Classical Cost: Ab Initio Nonadiabatic Dynamics Simulations Using the Mapping Approach to Surface Hopping

JR Mannouch, A Kelly - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nonadiabatic dynamics methods are an essential tool for investigating photochemical
processes. In the context of employing first-principles electronic structure techniques, such …

Extending the applicability of the multiple-spawning framework for nonadiabatic molecular dynamics

Y Lassmann, D Hollas… - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ab initio multiple-spawning (AIMS) describes the nonadiabatic dynamics of molecules by
expanding nuclear wave functions in a basis of traveling multidimensional Gaussians called …

Quantum Dynamics from Classical Trajectories

R S. Mattos, S Mukherjee… - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nonadiabatic molecular dynamics plays an essential role in exploring the time evolution of
molecular systems. Various methods have been developed for this study, with varying …

Deciphering the influence of ground-state distributions on the calculation of photolysis observables

A Prlj, D Hollas, BFE Curchod - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nonadiabatic molecular dynamics offers a powerful tool for studying the photochemistry of
molecular systems. Key to any nonadiabatic molecular dynamics simulation is the definition …

Simulations of photoinduced processes with the exact factorization: State of the art and perspectives

LM Ibele, ES Gil, EV Arribas, F Agostini - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
This Perspective offers an overview of the applications of the exact factorization of the
electronnuclear wavefunction to the domain of theoretical photochemistry, where the aim is …

Variational approach for linearly dependent moving bases in quantum dynamics: application to gaussian functions

L Joubert-Doriol - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2022 - ACS Publications
In this paper, we present a variational treatment of the linear dependence for a non-
orthogonal time-dependent basis set in solving the Schrödinger equation. The method is …