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Semiclassical effective Hamiltonian for coupled electronic and nuclear optical response.

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

Department of Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794
We propose a new semiclassical method for computing the vibronic structure of the optical response. By treating electronic degrees of freedom in the TDHF approximation and including vibrational degrees of freedom explicitly within the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, we derive an effective Hamiltonian that describes the coupled electronic and nuclear motions. In this paper we derive the harmonic part of the effective Hamiltonian and apply it to compute the linear absorption and fluorescence spectra of small polyenes.

Proc. of CMT22 Workshop, Condensed Matter Theories, Vol. 14, ed. by D. Ernst, Vanderbilt (2000)
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The article is cited in:
Tretiak S
Collective Electronic Excitations in Spectroscopy of Conjugated and Aggregated Molecules
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Rochester, 1998