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Equilibrium-nonequilibrium ring-polymer molecular dynamics for nonlinear spectroscopy
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Two-dimensional Raman and hybrid terahertz/Raman spectroscopic techniques provide invaluable insight into molecular structure and dynamics of condensed-phase systems. However, corroborating experimental results with theory is difficult due to the high computational cost of incorporating quantum-mechanical effects in the simulations. Here, we present the equilibrium-nonequilibrium ring-polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD), a practical computational method that can account for nuclear quantum effects on the two-time response function of nonlinear optical spectroscopy. Unlike a recently developed approach based on the double Kubo transformed (DKT) correlation function, our method is exact in the classical limit, where it reduces to the established equilibrium-nonequilibrium classical molecular dynamics method. Using benchmark model calculations, we demonstrate the advantages of the equilibrium-nonequilibrium RPMD over classical and DKT-based approaches. Importantly, its derivation, which is based on the nonequilibrium RPMD, obviates the need for identifying an appropriate Kubo transformed correlation function and paves the way for applying real-time path-integral techniques to multidimensional spectroscopy.<br />Comment: v2: Added a two-dimensional model system (Fig. 4), updated list of authors, other minor improvements; last 10 pages contain the supplementary material
- Subjects :
- Physics - Chemical Physics
Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2202.00887
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0087156