A Semiclassical Gaussian Wavepacket Method for Non-Adiabatic Molecular Dynamics

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We introduce two non-adiabatic semiclassical methods that employ two coupled Gaussian wavepackets, each one traveling on a separate diabatic potential energy surface. The wavepackets take the form of thawed Gaussians and are driven by classical equations of motion which account for the diabatic coupling. The classical equations of motion are derived in one case by enforcing the thawed Gaussian ansatz, while in the other the time-dependent variational principles to the thawed Gaussian ansatz. After a sanity check where both approximations reproduce Rabi oscillations, the methods are applied to two non-adiabatic potential energy scenarios. The first one involves two coupled displaced harmonic oscillators, as in a typical electron transfer reaction. The second one comprises a Morse potential coupled to an upper dissociative state, modeling a photo-dissociation process. In both scenarios, the variational thawed Gaussian approach is quite accurate, while the standard thawed Gaussian one fails to fully capture the non-adiabatic effects. Ultimately, non-adiabatic molecular dynamics is reproduced by means of two classical trajectories without introducing any artificial jump or other ad-hoc non-classical effects.

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