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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
卷 16, 期 9, 页码 5499-5511出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00644
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- AMOS program of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Chemical Sciences, and Biosciences Division
- Department of Energy, Laboratory Directed Research and Development program at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory [DE-AC02-76SF00515]
- German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina through the Leopoldina Fellowship Program [LPDS 2018-09]
The study of photoinduced dynamics in chemical systems necessitates accurate and computationally efficient electronic structure methods, especially as the systems of interest grow larger. The linear response hole-hole Tamm-Dancoff approximated (hh-TDA) density functional theory method was recently proposed to satisfy such demands. The N-electron electronic states are obtained by means of double annihilations on a doubly anionic (N + 2)-electron reference state, allowing for the ground and excited states to be formed on the same footing and thus enabling the correct description of conical intersections. Dynamic electron correlation effects are incorporated by means of the exchange-correlation functional. The accuracy afforded by the simultaneous treatment of static and dynamic correlation in addition to the relatively low computational cost, comparable to that of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), makes it a promising ab initio electronic structure method for on-the-fly generation of potential energy surfaces in nonadiabatic dynamics simulations of photochemical systems, particularly those for which the np* and pi pi* electronic excitations are most relevant. Here, we apply the hh-TDA method to nonadiabatic dynamics simulations of prototypical photochemical processes. First, we demonstrate the ability of hh-TDA to adequately describe conical intersection geometries. We next examine its ability to describe the ultrafast excited state dynamics of photoexcited ethylene through an ab initio multiple spawning (AIMS) dynamics simulation. Finally, we present an alternative variant of the hh-TDA method, which uses orbitals from a fractional occupation number Kohn-Sham (FON-KS) calculation applied to an ensemble with N-electrons. The resulting method is termed floating occupation molecular orbital hh-TDA (FOMO-hh-TDA). This scheme allows us to combine hhTDA with global hybrid functionals and allows us to avoid unbound valence orbitals that may result from an (N + 2)-electron selfconsistent field (SCF) procedure. FOMO-hh-TDA-BHLYP faithfully reproduces the nonadiabatic dynamics of trans-azobenzene (TAB) and is used to characterize the excited state decay pathways from the first (n pi*) excited state.
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