Non adiabatic coupling

The next significant development in the history of the geomebic phase is due to Mead and Truhlar [10]. The early workers [1-3] concenbated mainly on the specboscopic consequences of localized non-adiabatic coupling between the upper and lower adiabatic elecbonic eigenstates, while one now speaks... 

While the presence of sign changes in the adiabatic eigenstates at a conical intersection was well known in the early Jahn-Teller literature, much of the discussion centered on solutions of the coupled equations arising from non-adiabatic coupling between the two or mom nuclear components of the wave function in a spectroscopic context. Mead and Truhlar [10] were the first to... 

Phase factors of this type are employed, for example, by the Baer group [25,26]. While Eq. (34) is strictly applicable only in the immediate vicinity of the conical intersection, the continuity of the non-adiabatic coupling, discussed in Section HI, suggests that the integrated value of (x Vq x+) is independent of the size or shape of the encircling loop, provided that no other conical intersection is encountered. The mathematical assumption is that there exists some phase function, vl/(2), such that... 

They must be coupled by separate radial factors in a full calculation [2] but, to the extent that non-adiabatic coupling between the upper and lower... 

Some final comments on the relevance of non-adiabatic coupling matrix elements to the nature of the vector potential a are in order. The above analysis of the implications of the Aharonov coupling scheme for the single-surface nuclear dynamics shows that the off-diagonal operator A provides nonzero contiibutions only via the term (n A n). There are therefore no necessary contributions to a from the non-adiabatic coupling. However, as discussed earlier, in Section IV [see Eqs. (34)-(36)] in the context of the x e Jahn-Teller model, the phase choice t / = —4>/2 coupled with the identity... 

A. The Quantization of the Non-Adiabatic Coupling Matrix Along a Closed Path... 

Hence, in order to contract extended BO approximated equations for an N-state coupled BO system that takes into account the non-adiabatic coupling terms, we have to solve N uncoupled differential equations, all related to the electronic ground state but with different eigenvalues of the non-adiabatic coupling matrix. These uncoupled equations can yield meaningful physical... 

We concentrate on an adiabatic tri-state model in order to derive the quantization conditions to be fulfilled by the eigenvalues of the non-adiabatic coupling matrix and finally present the extended BO equation. The starting point is the 3x3 non-adiabatic coupling matrix,... 

The adiabatic coupled SE for the above 3x3 non-adiabatic coupling matrix are... 

It is important to note that the non-adiabatic coupling terms have a direct effect on the momentum of the nuclei, which is the reason it is called a dynamic coupling. By substituting Eq. (B.13) in Eq. (B.9), we get... 

When the non-adiabatic coupling terms x and x are considered negligibly small and dropped from Eq. (B.15), we get the uncoupled approximate Schrbdinger equation... 

In a different field, location, and characteristics of ci s on diabatic potential surfaces have been recognized as essential for the evaluation of dynamic parameters, like non-adiabatic coupling terms, needed for the dynamic and... 

As shown in Eq. (92), the gauge field aJ is simply related to the non-adiabatic coupling elements For an infinite set of electtonic adiabatic states [A = 00 in Eq. (90)], Ftc = 0. This important results seems to have been first established... 

In a two-lowest-electronic-state Bom-Huang description for a chemical reaction, the nuclei can move on both of two corresponding PESs during the reaction, due to the electronically non-adiabatic couplings between those states. A reactive scattering formalism for such a reaction involving a triatomic system... 

An alternative method that can be used to characterize the topology of PES is the line integral technique developed by Baer [53,54], which uses properties of the non-adiabatic coupling between states to identify and locate different types of intersections. The method has been applied to study the complex PES topologies in a number of small molecules such as H3 [55,56] and C2H [57]. 

Non-adiabatic coupling is also termed vibronic coupling as the resulting breakdown of the adiabatic picture is due to coupling between the nuclear and electi onic motion. A well-known special case of vibronic coupling is the Jahn-Teller effect [14,164-168], in which a symmetrical molecule in a doubly degenerate electronic state will spontaneously distort so as to break the symmetry and remove the degeneracy. 

The matrix of vectors F is thus the defining quantity, and is called the non-adiabatic coupling matrix. It gives the strength (and direction) of the coupling between the nuclear functions associated with the adiabatic electronic states. 

In a diabatic representation, the electronic wave functions are no longer eigenfunctions of the electronic Hamiltonian. The aim is instead that the functions are so chosen that the (nonlocal) non-adiabatic coupling operator matrix, A in Eq. (52), vanishes, and the couplings are represented by (local) potential operators. The nuclear Schrddinger equation is then written... 

For states of different symmetry, to first order the terms AW and W[2 are independent. When they both go to zero, there is a conical intersection. To connect this to Section III.C, take Qq to be at the conical intersection. The gradient difference vector in Eq. f75) is then a linear combination of the symmetric modes, while the non-adiabatic coupling vector inEq. (76) is a linear combination of the appropriate nonsymmetric modes. States of the same symmetry may also foiiti a conical intersection. In this case it is, however, not possible to say a priori which modes are responsible for the coupling. All totally symmetric modes may couple on- or off-diagonal, and the magnitudes of the coupling determine the topology. 

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