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We generalize the quasi-diabatic (QD) propagation scheme to simulate the non-adiabatic polariton dynamics in molecule–cavity hybrid systems. The adiabatic-Fock states, which are the tensor product states of the adiabatic electronic states of the molecule and photon Fock states, are used as the locally well-defined diabatic states for the dynamics propagation. These locally well-defined diabatic states allow using any diabatic quantum dynamics methods for dynamics propagation, and the definition of these states will be updated at every nuclear time step. We use several recently developed non-adiabatic mapping approaches as the diabatic dynamics methods to simulate polariton quantum dynamics in a Shin–Metiu model coupled to an optical cavity. The results obtained from the mapping approaches provide very accurate population dynamics compared to the numerically exact method and outperform the widely used mixed quantum-classical approaches, such as the Ehrenfest dynamics and the fewest switches surface hopping approach. We envision that the generalized QD scheme developed in this work will provide a powerful tool to perform the non-adiabatic polariton simulations by allowing a direct interface between the diabatic dynamics methods and ab initio polariton information.
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Nuclear gradient expressions for molecular cavity quantum electrodynamics simulations using mixed quantum-classical methods
We derive a rigorous nuclear gradient for a molecule-cavity hybrid system using the quantum electrodynamics Hamiltonian. We treat the electronic–photonic degrees of freedom (DOFs) as the quantum subsystem and the nuclei as the classical subsystem. Using the adiabatic basis for the electronic DOF and the Fock basis for the photonic DOF and requiring the total energy conservation of this mixed quantum–classical (MQC) system, we derived the rigorous nuclear gradient for the molecule–cavity hybrid system, which is naturally connected to the approximate gradient under the Jaynes–Cummings approximation. The nuclear gradient expression can be readily used in any MQC simulations and will allow one to perform the non-adiabatic on-the-fly simulation of polariton quantum dynamics. The theoretical developments in this work could significantly benefit the polariton quantum dynamics community with a rigorous nuclear gradient of the molecule–cavity hybrid system and have a broad impact on the future non-adiabatic simulations of polariton quantum dynamics.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1845747
- PAR ID:
- 10376856
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Volume:
- 157
- Issue:
- 10
- ISSN:
- 0021-9606
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 104118
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0109395
