An analysis of nonadiabatic ring-polymer molecular dynamics and its application to vibronic spectra

Abstract

Nonadiabatic ring-polymer molecular dynamics employs the mapping approach to describe nonadiabatic effects within the ring-polymer ansatz. In this paper, it is generalized to allow for the nuclear and electronic degrees of freedom to be described by different numbers of ring-polymer beads. Analysis of the resulting method shows that as the number of electronic mapping variables increases, certain problems associated with the approach are removed, such as the non-unique choice of the mapping Hamiltonian and negative populations leading to inverted potential-energy surfaces. Explicit integration over cyclic variables reduces the sign problem for the initial distribution in the general case. A new application for the simulation of vibronic spectra is described and promising results are presented for a model system.

arXiv comment28 pages, 4 figures; submitted to Chem. Phys

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