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Main Authors: Bian, Xuezhi, Wu, Yanze, Qiu, Tian, Zhen, Tao, Subotnik, Joseph E.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01156
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  • We present a novel semiclassical phase-space surface hopping approach that goes beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation and all existing surface hopping formalisms. We demonstrate that working with a correct phase-space electronic Hamiltonian can capture electronic inertial effects during pure nuclear translational and rotational motion and completely eliminate (at least to very high order) non-adiabatic transitions between electronic eigenstates. This work opens many new avenues for quantitatively investigating complex phenomena, including angular momentum transfer between chiral phonons and electrons as well as chiral-induced spin selectivity effects.