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 …

Nonadiabatic excited-state molecular dynamics: Modeling photophysics in organic conjugated materials

T Nelson, S Fernandez-Alberti… - Accounts of chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Conspectus To design functional photoactive materials for a variety of technological
applications, researchers need to understand their electronic properties in detail and have …

The PYXAID program for non-adiabatic molecular dynamics in condensed matter systems

AV Akimov, OV Prezhdo - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2013 - ACS Publications
This work introduces the PYXAID program, developed for non-adiabatic molecular dynamics
simulations in condensed matter systems. By applying the classical path approximation to …

An overview of nonadiabatic dynamics simulations methods, with focus on the direct approach versus the fitting of potential energy surfaces

M Persico, G Granucci - Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, 2014 - Springer
We review state-of-the-art nonadiabatic molecular dynamics methods, with focus on the
comparison of two general strategies: the “direct” one, in which the potential energy surfaces …

Light-driven and phonon-assisted dynamics in organic and semiconductor nanostructures

S Kilina, D Kilin, S Tretiak - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Rapid advances in chemical synthesis and fabrication techniques have led to a boost in
manufacturing and design of novel nanostructured materials that exhibit unique and often …

NEXMD software package for nonadiabatic excited state molecular dynamics simulations

W Malone, B Nebgen, A White, Y Zhang… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We present a versatile new code released for open community use, the nonadiabatic excited
state molecular dynamics (NEXMD) package. This software aims to simulate nonadiabatic …

Identification of unavoided crossings in nonadiabatic photoexcited dynamics involving multiple electronic states in polyatomic conjugated molecules

S Fernandez-Alberti, AE Roitberg, T Nelson… - The Journal of chemical …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Radiationless transitions between electronic excited states in polyatomic molecules take
place through unavoided crossings of the potential energy surfaces with substantial non …

Energy transfer from Förster–Dexter theory to quantum coherent light-harvesting

A Olaya-Castro, GD Scholes - International Reviews in Physical …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Electronic excitation energy transfer is ubiquitous in a variety of multichromophoric systems
and has been a subject of numerous investigations in the last century. Recently …

Nonadiabatic excited-state molecular dynamics modeling of photoinduced dynamics in conjugated molecules

T Nelson, S Fernandez-Alberti… - The Journal of …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Nonadiabatic dynamics generally defines the entire evolution of electronic excitations in
optically active molecular materials. It is commonly associated with a number of fundamental …

[HTML][HTML] Ab initio quantum direct dynamics simulations of ultrafast photochemistry with Multiconfigurational Ehrenfest approach

DV Makhov, C Symonds, S Fernandez-Alberti… - Chemical Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Multiconfigurational Ehrenfest (MCE) method is a quantum dynamics technique
which allows treatment of a large number of quantum nuclear degrees of freedom. This …