Matching-pursuit split-operator Fourier-transform simulations of excited-state intramolecular proton transfer in 2-(2'-hydroxyphenyl)-oxazole
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1Department of Chemistry, Yale University, P.O. Box 208107, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, USA.
Abstract:
The excited-state intramolecular proton-transfer dynamics associated with the keto-enolic tautomerization reaction in 2-(2(')-hydroxyphenyl)-oxazole is simulated according to a numerically exact quantum-dynamics propagation method and a full-dimensional excited-state potential energy surface, based on an ab initio reaction surface Hamiltonian. The reported simulations involve the propagation of 35-dimensional wave packets according to the recently developed matching-pursuit/split-operator-Fourier-transform (MP/SOFT) method by Wu and Batista. The underlying propagation scheme recursively applies the time-evolution operator as defined by the Trotter expansion to second order accuracy in dynamically adaptive coherent-state expansions. Computations of time-dependent survival amplitudes, photoabsorption cross sections, and time-dependent reactant(product) populations are compared to the corresponding calculations based on semiclassical approaches, including the Herman-Kluk semiclassical initial value representation method. The reported results demonstrate the capabilities of the MP/SOFT method as a valuble computational tool to study ultrafast reaction dynamics in polyatomic systems as well as to validate semiclassical simulations of complex (nonintegrable) quantum dynamics in multidimensional model systems.
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