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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 136, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3680565
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- (U.S.) Department of Energy [DE-AC52-06NA25396]
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
- CONICET, AMPCGT [PICT-2010-2375]
- UNQ, NSF [CHE-0239120, CHE-0808910]
- Center for Integrated Nanotechnology (CINT)
- Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS) at LANL
Nonadiabatic molecular dynamics simulations, involving multiple Born-Oppenheimer potential energy surfaces, often require a large number of independent trajectories in order to achieve the desired convergence of the results, and simulation relies on different parameters that should be tested and compared. In addition to influencing the speed of the simulation, the chosen parameters combined with the frequently reduced number of trajectories can sometimes lead to unanticipated changes in the accuracy of the simulated dynamics. We have previously developed a nonadiabatic excited state molecular dynamics methodology employing Tully's fewest switches surface hopping algorithm. In this study, we seek to investigate the impact of the number of trajectories and the various parameters on the simulation of the photoinduced dynamics of distyrylbenzene (a small oligomer of polyphenylene vinylene) within our developed framework. Various user-defined parameters are analyzed: classical and quantum integration time steps, the value of the friction coefficient for Langevin dynamics, and the initial seed used for stochastic thermostat and hopping algorithms. Common approximations such as reduced number of nonadiabatic coupling terms and the classical path approximation are also investigated. Our analysis shows that, at least for the considered molecular system, a minimum of similar to 400 independent trajectories should be calculated in order to achieve statistical averaging necessary for convergence of the calculated relaxation timescales. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3680565]
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