title: Trajectory surface hopping in the time-dependent Kohn-Sham approach for electron-nuclear dynamics.
abstract: The mean-field treatment of electron-nuclear interaction results in many qualitative breakdowns in the time-dependent Kohn-Sham (TDKS) density functional theory. Examples include current-induced heating in nanoelectronics, charge dynamics in quantum dots and carbon nanotubes, and relaxation of biological chromophores. The problem is resolved by the trajectory surface-hopping TDKS approach, which is illustrated by the photoinduced electron injection from a molecular chromophore into TiO2, and the excited-state relaxation of the green fluorescent protein chromophore.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, 98195-1700, USA.
authors.forename: Colleen F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Craig
authors.forename: Walter R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Duncan
authors.forename: Oleg V
authors.initials: OV
authors.lastname: Prezhdo