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 …

The quest to simulate excited-state dynamics of transition metal complexes

JP Zobel, L González - JACS Au, 2021 - ACS Publications
This Perspective describes current computational efforts in the field of simulating
photodynamics of transition metal complexes. We present the typical workflows and feature …

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 …

Excited state non-adiabatic dynamics of large photoswitchable molecules using a chemically transferable machine learning potential

S Axelrod, E Shakhnovich… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Light-induced chemical processes are ubiquitous in nature and have widespread
technological applications. For example, photoisomerization can allow a drug with a photo …

Ab Initio Multiple Spawning nonadiabatic dynamics with different CASPT2 flavors: A fully open-source PySpawn/OpenMolcas interface

LM Ibele, A Memhood, BG Levine… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We introduce an interface between PySpawn, a simulation package to run ab initio multiple
spawning (AIMS) nonadiabatic dynamics, and OpenMolcas, a software package to perform …

Study of the decoherence correction derived from the exact factorization approach for nonadiabatic dynamics

P Vindel-Zandbergen, LM Ibele, JK Ha… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We present a detailed study of the decoherence correction to surface hopping that was
recently derived from the exact factorization approach. Ab initio multiple spawning …

A local diabatisation method for two-state adiabatic conical intersections

E Vandaele, M Mališ, S Luber - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2024 - ACS Publications
A methodology to locally characterize conical intersections (CIs) between two adiabatic
electronic states for which no nonadiabatic coupling (NAC) vectors are available is …

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 …

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 …

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 …