Equilibrium–nonequilibrium ring-polymer molecular dynamics for nonlinear spectroscopy
Abstract
Two-dimensional Raman and hybrid terahertz-Raman spectroscopic techniques provide invaluable insight into molecular structures 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.
Additional Information
© 2022 Author(s). Published under an exclusive license by AIP Publishing. Submitted: 2 February 2022; Accepted: 15 March 2022; Published Online: 7 April 2022. The authors thank Kenneth A. Jung, Roman Korol, and Jorge L. Rosa-Raíces for helpful discussions. T.B. acknowledges financial support from the Swiss National Science Foundation through the Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship (Grant No. P2ELP2-199757). G.A.B. and T.F.M. gratefully acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation Chemical Structure, Dynamics and Mechanisms program (Grant No. CHE-1665467). The computations presented here were conducted in the Resnick High Performance Computing Center, a facility supported by the Resnick Sustainability Institute at the California Institute of Technology. Data Availability: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. The authors have no conflicts to disclose.Attached Files
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- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- P2ELP2-199757
- NSF
- CHE-1665467
- Resnick Sustainability Institute
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2022-02-24Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2023-10-06Created from EPrint's last_modified field
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- Resnick Sustainability Institute, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences