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Ground-state-density-matrix algorithm for excited state adiabatic surfaces; application to polyenes.

E.V. Tsiper, V. Chernyak, S. Tretiak, and S. Mukamel

Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627.
A low-cost method for computing excited-state adiabatic surfaces, which totally avoids the calculation of the excited-state many-electron wavefunctions and scales favorably with molecular size is proposed. The technique combines standard ground-state calculations with a time-dependent density matrix calculation of vertical optical excitations, using the ground-state single-electron density matrix as an input. Several surfaces are generated simultaneously. The structure and vibrational frequencies of the 1Bu state of hexatriene and octatetraene are calculated using this method. The computed sign of the excited-state equilibrium displacements facilitates rapid analysis of resonance Raman measurements.

Chem. Phys. Lett. 302, 77 (1999)
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Peculiarities of the Environmental Influence on the Optical Properties of Push–Pull Nonlinear Optical Molecules: A Theoretical Study.
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Ren, H., Jiang, J. and Mukamel, S.,
Deep UV resonance Raman spectroscopy of β-sheet amyloid fibrils: a QM/MM simulation.
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Smith, S.M., Li, X., Markevitch, A., Romanov, D., Levis, R.J. and Schlegel, H.B.,
Numerical simulation of nonadiabatic electron excitation in the strong-field regime. 3. Polyacene neutrals and cations.
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Acocella, A., Jones, G.A. and Zerbetto, F.,
Mono-and bichromatic electron dynamics: LiH, a test case.
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Li, X., Smith, S.M., Markevitch, A.N., Romanov, D.A., Levis, R.J. and Schlegel, H.B.,
A time-dependent Hartree–Fock approach for studying the electronic optical response of molecules in intense fields.
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Smith, S.M., Li, X., Markevitch, A.N., Romanov, D.A., Levis, R.J. and Schlegel, H.B.,
A numerical simulation of nonadiabatic electron excitation in the strong field regime: Linear polyenes.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 109(23), pp.5176-5185, 2005.

Smith, S.M., Li, X., Markevitch, A.N., Romanov, D.A., Levis, R.J. and Schlegel, H.B.,
Numerical simulation of nonadiabatic electron excitation in the strong field regime. 2. Linear polyene cations.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 109(46), pp.10527-10534, 2005.

Shem‐Tov, S. and Segev, B.,
Surface jumping in a harmonic model of trans‐octatetraene: Franck—condon factors and accepting vibrational modes in s1->S0 non‐vertical radiationless transition.
Israel journal of chemistry, 45(1‐2), pp.239-251, 2005.

Tretiak, S., Saxena, A., Martin, R.L. and Bishop, A.R.,
Photoexcited breathers in conjugated polyenes: An excited-state molecular dynamics study.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100(5), pp.2185-2190, 2003.

Tretiak, S. and Mukamel, S.,
Density matrix analysis and simulation of electronic excitations in conjugated and aggregated molecules.
Chemical reviews, 102(9), pp.3171-3212, 2002.

Tretiak, S., Saxena, A., Martin, R.L. and Bishop, A.R.,
Conformational dynamics of photoexcited conjugated molecules.
Physical review letters, 89(9), p.097402, 2002.

Starikov, E.B.,
Quantum chemistry of nucleic acids: how it could help and when it is necessary.
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews, 3(2), pp.147-164, 2002.

Ern, J., Bens, A.T., Martin, H.D., Mukamel, S., Tretiak, S., Tsyganenko, K., Kuldova, K., Trommsdorff, H.P. and Kryschi, C.,
Reaction dynamics of a photochromic fluorescing dithienylethene.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 105(10), pp.1741-1749, 2001.

Tsiper, E.V.,
A classical mechanics technique for quantum linear response.
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 34(12), p.L401, 2001.

Goldmann, E., Asher, S.A. and Mukamel, S.,
Electronic excitations of polyalanine; test of the independent chromophore approximation.
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Tretiak, S.,
Random phase approximation/semiempirical computations of electronic structure of extended organic molecules.
Recent Research Developments in Physical Chemistry, 5, pp.721-45, 2001.

Chernyak, V., Schulz, M.F., Mukamel, S., Tretiak, S. and Tsiper, E.V.,
Krylov-space algorithms for time-dependent Hartree–Fock and density functional computations.
The Journal of Chemical Physics, 113(1), pp.36-43, 2000.

Tretiak, S., Saxena, A., Martin, R.L. and Bishop, A.R.,
CEO/semiempirical calculations of UV–visible spectra in conjugated molecules.
Chemical Physics Letters, 331(5-6), pp.561-568, 2000.

Pálszegi, T., Szőcs, V., Breza, M. and Lukeš, V.,
Modelling of Bithiophene Ultrafast Photophysics: Electronic Oscillator and Molecular Geometry Evolution.
In Multiphoton and Light Driven Multielectron Processes in Organics: New Phenomena, Materials and Applications, ed. by F. Kajzar and M.V. Agranovich (pp. 135-150). Springer, Dordrecht. ISBN: 978-94-011-4056-0, 2000.

Ern, J.,
Untersuchung von photochromen molekularen Systemen mit fs-auflösender transienter Spektroskopie und quantenchemischen Rechnungen.
Doctoral dissertation, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf, 2000.

Ern, J., Bens, A.T., Martin, H.D., Mukamel, S., Schmid, D., Tretiak, S., Tsiper, E. and Kryschi, C.,
Reaction dynamics of photochromic dithienylethene derivatives.
Chemical physics, 246(1-3), pp.115-125, 1999.

Tsiper, E.V., Chernyak, V., Tretiak, S. and Mukamel, S.,
Density-matrix-spectroscopic algorithm for excited-state adiabatic surfaces and molecular dynamics of a protonated Schiff base.
The Journal of chemical physics, 110(17), pp.8328-8337, 1999.