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 …

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 …

NWChem: Recent and Ongoing Developments

D Mejia-Rodriguez, E Aprà, J Autschbach… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
This paper summarizes developments in the NWChem computational chemistry suite since
the last major release (NWChem 7.0. 0). Specifically, we focus on functionality, along with …

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 …

Trajectory-based nonadiabatic molecular dynamics without calculating nonadiabatic coupling in the avoided crossing case: trans↔ cis photoisomerization in …

L Yu, C Xu, Y Lei, C Zhu, Z Wen - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
We develop a novel method to simulate analytical nonadiabatic switching probability based
on effective coupling and effective collision energy by using only electronic adiabatic …

First principles nonadiabatic excited-state molecular dynamics in NWChem

H Song, SA Fischer, Y Zhang, CJ Cramer… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Computational simulation of nonadiabatic molecular dynamics is an indispensable tool for
understanding complex photoinduced processes such as internal conversion, energy …

Surface hopping dynamics with DFT excited states

M Barbatti, R Crespo-Otero - Density-functional methods for excited states, 2016 - Springer
Nonadiabatic dynamics simulation of electronically-excited states has been a research area
of fundamental importance, providing support for spectroscopy, explaining photoinduced …

Performance of TDDFT with and without spin-flip in trajectory surface hopping dynamics: cis–trans azobenzene photoisomerization

L Yue, Y Liu, C Zhu - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) with and without a spin-flip scheme is
extensively compared in on-the-fly trajectory surface hopping molecular dynamics with a …

Nonadiabatic Dynamics of Photoexcited cis-Stilbene Using Ab Initio Multiple Spawning

H Weir, M Williams, RM Parrish… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The photochemistry of cis-stilbene proceeds through two pathways: cis-trans isomerization
and ring closure to 4a, 4b-dihydrophenanthrene (DHP). Despite serving for many decades …

An ab initio multiple cloning method for non-adiabatic excited-state molecular dynamics in NWChem

H Song, VM Freixas, S Fernandez-Alberti… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The recently developed ab initio multiple cloning (AIMC) approach based on the
multiconfigurational Ehrenfest (MCE) method provides a powerful and accurate way of …