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Non-adiabatic ring polymer molecular dynamics with spin mapping variables

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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 154, 期 18, 页码 -

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AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0051456

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  1. National Science Foundation CAREER Award [CHE-1845747]
  2. Cottrell Scholar Award

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The new NRPMD method, based on the spin mapping formalism, demonstrates numerical accuracy and advantages in computing nuclear position and population auto-correlation functions of non-adiabatic model systems. It provides efficient sampling of quantum statistics and nearly time-independent expectation values for physical observables.
We present a new non-adiabatic ring polymer molecular dynamics (NRPMD) method based on the spin mapping formalism, which we refer to as the spin mapping NRPMD (SM-NRPMD) approach. We derive the path-integral partition function expression using the spin coherent state basis for the electronic states and the ring polymer formalism for the nuclear degrees of freedom. This partition function provides an efficient sampling of the quantum statistics. Using the basic properties of the Stratonovich-Weyl transformation, we further justify a Hamiltonian that we propose for the dynamical propagation of the coupled spin mapping variables and the nuclear ring polymer. The accuracy of the SM-NRPMD method is numerically demonstrated by computing the nuclear position and population auto-correlation functions of non-adiabatic model systems. The results obtained using the SM-NRPMD method agree very well with the numerically exact results. The main advantage of using the spin mapping variables over the harmonic oscillator mapping variables is numerically demonstrated, where the former provides nearly time-independent expectation values of physical observables for systems under thermal equilibrium. We also explicitly demonstrate that SM-NRPMD provides invariant dynamics upon various ways of partitioning the state-dependent and state-independent potentials.

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