State Dependent Ring Polymer Molecular Dynamics for Investigating Excited Nonadiabatic Dynamics

Abstract

Recently proposed non-adiabatic ring polymer molecular dynamics (NRPMD) approach has shown to provide accurate quantum dynamics by incorporating explicit electronic state descriptions and nuclear quantizations. Here, we present a rigorous derivation of the NRPMD Hamiltonian and investigate its performance on simulating excited state non-adiabatic dynamics. Our derivation is based on the Meyer-Miller-Stock-Thoss (MMST) mapping representation for electronic states and the ring-polymer path-integral description for nuclei, resulting in the same Hamiltonian proposed in the original NRPMD approach. In addition, we investigate the accuracy of using NRPMD to simulate photoinduced non-adiabatic dynamics in simple model systems. These model calculations suggest that NRPMD can alleviate the zero-point energy leakage problem that is commonly encountered in the classical Wigner dynamics, and provide accurate excited states non-adiabatic dynamics. This work provides a solid theoretical foundation of the promising NRPMD Hamiltonian and demonstrates the possibility of using state-dependent RPMD approach to accurately simulate electronic non-adiabatic dynamics while explicitly quantize nuclei.

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