Mean-Field Ring Polymer Rates Using a Population Dividing Surface

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Main Authors: London, Nathan, Bu, Siyu, Johnson, Britta Ann, Ananth, Nandini
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author London, Nathan
Bu, Siyu
Johnson, Britta Ann
Ananth, Nandini
author_facet London, Nathan
Bu, Siyu
Johnson, Britta Ann
Ananth, Nandini
contents Mean-field Ring Polymer Molecular Dynamics (MF-RPMD) offers a computationally efficient method for the simulation of reaction rates in multi-level systems. Previous work has established that, to model a nonadiabatic state-to-state reaction accurately, the dividing surface must be chosen to explicitly sample kinked ring polymer configurations where at least one bead is in a different electronic state than the others. Building on this, we introduce a population difference coordinate and a kink-constrained dividing surface, and we test the accuracy of the resulting mean-field rate theory on a series of linear vibronic coupling model systems as well as spin-boson models. We demonstrate that this new MF-RPMD rate approach is efficient to implement and quantitatively accurate for models over a wide range of driving forces, coupling strengths, and temperatures.
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spellingShingle Mean-Field Ring Polymer Rates Using a Population Dividing Surface
London, Nathan
Bu, Siyu
Johnson, Britta Ann
Ananth, Nandini
Chemical Physics
Mean-field Ring Polymer Molecular Dynamics (MF-RPMD) offers a computationally efficient method for the simulation of reaction rates in multi-level systems. Previous work has established that, to model a nonadiabatic state-to-state reaction accurately, the dividing surface must be chosen to explicitly sample kinked ring polymer configurations where at least one bead is in a different electronic state than the others. Building on this, we introduce a population difference coordinate and a kink-constrained dividing surface, and we test the accuracy of the resulting mean-field rate theory on a series of linear vibronic coupling model systems as well as spin-boson models. We demonstrate that this new MF-RPMD rate approach is efficient to implement and quantitatively accurate for models over a wide range of driving forces, coupling strengths, and temperatures.
title Mean-Field Ring Polymer Rates Using a Population Dividing Surface
topic Chemical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04613