Understanding the Surface Hopping View of Electronic Transitions and Decoherence
- 27 May 2016
- journal article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
- Vol. 67 (1), 387-417
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-physchem-040215-112245
Abstract
We present a current, up-to-date review of the surface hopping methodology for solving nonadiabatic problems, 25 years after Tully published the fewest switches surface hopping algorithm. After reviewing the original motivation for and failures of the algorithm, we give a detailed examination of modern advances, focusing on both theoretical and practical issues. We highlight how one can partially derive surface hopping from the Schrödinger equation in the adiabatic basis, how one can change basis within the surface hopping algorithm, and how one should understand and apply the notions of decoherence and wavepacket bifurcation. The question of time reversibility and detailed balance is also examined at length. Recent applications to photoexcited conjugated polymers are discussed briefly.This publication has 148 references indexed in Scilit:
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