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 …

Recent advances and perspectives on nonadiabatic mixed quantum–classical dynamics

R Crespo-Otero, M Barbatti - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Nonadiabatic mixed quantum–classical (NA-MQC) dynamics methods form a class of
computational theoretical approaches in quantum chemistry tailored to investigate the time …

Ab initio nonadiabatic quantum molecular dynamics

BFE Curchod, TJ Martínez - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The Born–Oppenheimer approximation underlies much of chemical simulation and provides
the framework defining the potential energy surfaces that are used for much of our pictorial …

Quantum biology revisited

J Cao, RJ Cogdell, DF Coker, HG Duan, J Hauer… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Photosynthesis is a highly optimized process from which valuable lessons can be learned
about the operating principles in nature. Its primary steps involve energy transport operating …

Unravelling the Effects of Grain Boundary and Chemical Doping on Electron–Hole Recombination in CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite by Time-Domain Atomistic Simulation

R Long, J Liu, OV Prezhdo - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Advancing organohalide perovskite solar cells requires understanding of carrier dynamics.
Electron–hole recombination is a particularly important process because it constitutes a …

Recent progress in surface hopping: 2011–2015

L Wang, A Akimov, OV Prezhdo - The journal of physical chemistry …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Developed 25 years ago, Tully's fewest switches surface hopping (FSSH) has proven to be
the most popular approach for simulating quantum-classical dynamics in a broad variety of …

Understanding the surface hopping view of electronic transitions and decoherence

JE Subotnik, A Jain, B Landry, A Petit… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
We present a current, up-to-date review of the surface hopping methodology for solving
nonadiabatic problems, 25 years after Tully published the fewest switches surface hopping …

The transient localization scenario for charge transport in crystalline organic materials

S Fratini, D Mayou, S Ciuchi - Advanced Functional Materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Charge transport in crystalline organic semiconductors is intrinsically limited by the
presence of large thermal molecular motions, which are a direct consequence of the weak …

Decoherence-induced surface hopping

HM Jaeger, S Fischer, OV Prezhdo - The Journal of chemical physics, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
A simple surface hopping method for nonadiabatic molecular dynamics is developed. The
method derives from a stochastic modeling of the time-dependent Schrödinger and master …

Perspective: Nonadiabatic dynamics theory

JC Tully - The Journal of chemical physics, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Nonadiabatic dynamics—nuclear motion evolving on multiple potential energy surfaces—
has captivated the interest of chemists for decades. Exciting advances in experimentation …