On-the-fly ab initio molecular dynamics with multiconfigurational Ehrenfest method

Kenichiro Saita; Dmitrii V Shalashilin

doi:10.1063/1.4734313

On-the-fly ab initio molecular dynamics with multiconfigurational Ehrenfest method

J Chem Phys. 2012 Dec 14;137(22):22A506. doi: 10.1063/1.4734313.

Authors

Kenichiro Saita¹, Dmitrii V Shalashilin

Affiliation

¹ School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom. [email protected]

PMID: 23249043
DOI: 10.1063/1.4734313

Abstract

In this article we report the formalism and first implementation of the ab initio multiconfigurational Ehrenfest (AI-MCE) method for simulation of ultrafast nonadiabatic dynamics, which uses the MOLPRO electronic structure program to calculate the potential energy surfaces on the fly. The approach is tested on the benchmark of the excited ππ∗ state dynamics of ethylene producing the dynamics which agree with previous simulations by ab initio multiple spawning technique. The AI-MCE seems to be robust, stable and efficient.