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Semiclassical Description of Nonadiabatic Quantum Dynamics

Gerhard Stock, +1 more
- 27 Jan 1997 - 
- Vol. 78, Iss: 4, pp 578-581
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In this article, a semiclassical approach is presented that allows us to extend the usual Van Vleck-Gutzwiller formulation to the description of nonadiabatic quantum dynamics on coupled potential energy surfaces.
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A semiclassical approach is presented that allows us to extend the usual Van Vleck--Gutzwiller formulation to the description of nonadiabatic quantum dynamics on coupled potential-energy surfaces. Based on Schwinger's theory of angular momentum, the formulation employs an exact mapping of the discrete quantum variables onto continuous degrees of freedom. The resulting dynamical problem is evaluated through a semiclassical initial-value representation of the time-dependent propagator. As a first application we have performed semiclassical simulations for a spin-boson model, which reproduce the exact quantum-mechanical results quite accurately.

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