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1Department of Chemistry, Tulane University, New Orleans, Los Angeles 70118, USA.
Abstract:
The nonadiabatic surface hopping Herman-Kluk (HK) semiclassical initial value representation (SC-IVR) method for nonadiabatic problems is reformulated. The method has the same spirit as Tully's surface hopping technique [J. Chem. Phys. 93, 1061 (1990)] and almost keeps the same structure as the original single-surface HK SC-IVR method except that trajectories can hop to other surfaces according to the hopping probabilities and phases, which can be easily integrated along the paths. The method is based on a rather general nonadiabatic semiclassical surface hopping theory developed by Herman [J. Chem. Phys. 103, 8081 (1995)], which has been shown to be accurate to the first order in h and through all the orders of the nonadiabatic coupling amplitude. Our simulation studies on the three model systems suggested by Tully demonstrate that this method is practical and capable of describing nonadiabatic quantum dynamics for various coupling situations in very good agreement with benchmark calculations.
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