Nonadiabatic Ehrenfest molecular dynamics within the projector augmented-wave method

Details Nonadiabatic Ehrenfest molecular dynamics within the projector augmented-wave method Nonadiabatic Ehrenfest molecular dynamics within the projector augmented-wave method

2011-09-28

arxiv.org/abs/1109.6157v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

12 pages, 10 figures

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We have derived equations for nonadiabatic Ehrenfest molecular dynamics which conserve the total energy in the case of time-dependent discretization for electrons. A discretization is time-dependent in all cases where it or part of it depends on the positions of the nuclei, for example, in atomic orbital basis sets, and in the projector augmented-wave (PAW) method, where the augmentation functions depend on the nuclear positions. We have derived, implemented, and analyzed the energy conserving equations and their most common approximations for a 1D test system where we can achieve numerical results converged to a high accuracy. Based on the observations in 1D, we implement and analyze the Ehrenfest molecular dynamics in 3D using the PAW method and the time-dependent density functional formalism. We demonstrate the applicability of our method by carrying out calculations for small and medium sized molecules in both the adiabatic and the nonadiabatic regime.

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