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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 10, Issue 22, Pages 7062-7070Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02747
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- National Science Foundation CAREER Award [CHE-1845747]
- Enabling Quantum Leap in Chemistry program [CHE-1836546]
- Elon Huntington Hooker Fellowship
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We use the quasi-diabatic (QD) propagation scheme to perform on-the-fly nonadiabatic simulations of the photodynamics of ethylene. The QD scheme enables a seamless interface between accurate diabatic-based quantum dynamics approaches and adiabatic electronic structure calculations, explicitly avoiding any efforts to construct global diabatic states or reformulate the diabatic dynamics approach to the adiabatic representation. Using the partial linearized path-integral approach and the symmetrical quasi-classical approach as the diabatic dynamics methods, the QD propagation scheme enables direct nonadiabatic simulation with complete active space self-consistent field on-the-fly electronic structure calculations. The population dynamics obtained from both approaches are in a close agreement with the quantum wavepacket-based method and outperform the widely used trajectory surface-hopping approach. Further analysis of the ethylene photodeactivation pathways demonstrates the correct predictions of competing processes of nonradiative relaxation mechanism through various conical intersections. This work provides the foundation of using accurate diabatic dynamics approaches and on-the-fly adiabatic electronic structure information to perform ab initio nonadiabatic simulation.
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