Journal
CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 349, Issue 1-3, Pages 334-347Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2008.01.044
Keywords
surface hopping; molecular dynamics; potential-energy surfaces; conical intersections; nonadiabatic coupling terms; semiempirical methods
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A molecular dynamics driver and surface hopping algorithm for nonadiabatic dynamics has been implemented in a development version of the MNDO semiernpirical electronic structure package. The required energies, gradients and nonadiabatic couplings are efficiently evaluated on the fly using semiempirical configuration interaction methods. The choice of algorithms for the time evolution of the nuclear motion and quantum amplitudes is discussed, and different schemes for the computation of nonadiabatic couplings are analysed. The importance of molecular orbital tracking and electronic state following is underlined in the context of configuration interaction calculations. The method is applied to three case studies (ethylene, methaniminium ion, and methanimine) using the orthogonalization corrected OM2 Hamiltonian. In all three cases decay times and dynamics paths similar to high-level ab initio results are obtained. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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