Combustion chemistry in the twenty-first century: Developing theory-informed chemical kinetics models

JA Miller, R Sivaramakrishnan, Y Tao… - Progress in Energy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the last 20 to 25 years theoretical chemistry (particularly theoretical chemical kinetics)
has played an increasingly important role in developing chemical kinetics models for …

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 …

MESMER: an open-source master equation solver for multi-energy well reactions

DR Glowacki, CH Liang, C Morley… - The Journal of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The most commonly used theoretical models for describing chemical kinetics are accurate in
two limits. When relaxation is fast with respect to reaction time scales, thermal transition state …

Diabatic states of molecules

Y Shu, Z Varga, S Kanchanakungwankul… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Quantitative simulations of electronically nonadiabatic molecular processes require both
accurate dynamics algorithms and accurate electronic structure information. Direct …

Role of conical intersections in molecular spectroscopy and photoinduced chemical dynamics

W Domcke, DR Yarkony - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2012 - annualreviews.org
This review describes how conical intersections affect measured molecular spectra and
simple photofragmentation processes. We consider excitations that result in electron …

Modeling the kinetics of bimolecular reactions

A Fernández-Ramos, JA Miller, SJ Klippenstein… - Chemical …, 2006 - ACS Publications
This review is concerned with the theoretical and computational modeling of bimolecular
reactions, especially with generally applicable methods for kinetics (ie, overall rates as …

Nonadiabatic coupling in trajectory surface hopping: accurate time derivative couplings by the curvature-driven approximation

X Zhao, ICD Merritt, R Lei, Y Shu… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Trajectory surface hopping (TSH) is a widely used mixed quantum-classical dynamics
method that is used to simulate molecular dynamics with multiple electronic states. In TSH …

Decoherence and its role in electronically nonadiabatic dynamics

Y Shu, DG Truhlar - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2023 - ACS Publications
Decoherence is the tendency of a time-evolved reduced density matrix for a subsystem to
assume a form corresponding to a statistical ensemble of states rather than a coherent …

The time-dependent quantum wave packet approach to the electronically nonadiabatic processes in chemical reactions

TS Chu, Y Zhang, KL Han - International Reviews in Physical …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
The time-dependent quantum wave packet approach has been improved and formulated to
treat the multiple surface problems and thus provided a new simple, yet a clear quantum …

Nonadiabatic events and conical intersections

S Matsika, P Krause - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Nonadiabatic events, in which the Born-Oppenheimer approximation breaks down, are
ubiquitous in chemistry and biology. It is now widely accepted that they are facilitated by …