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Derivative Couplings With Built-In Electron-Translation Factors: Application To Benzene, Shervin Fatehi, Joseph E. Subotnik
Derivative Couplings With Built-In Electron-Translation Factors: Application To Benzene, Shervin Fatehi, Joseph E. Subotnik
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Derivative couplings are the essential quantities at the interface between electronic-structure calculations and nonadiabatic dynamics. Unfortunately, standard approaches for calculating these couplings usually neglect electronic motion, which can lead to spurious electronic transitions. Here we provide a general framework for correcting these anomalies by incorporating perturbative electron-translation factors (ETFs) into the atomic-orbital basis. For a range of representative organic molecules, we find that our ETF correction is often small but can be qualitatively important, especially for few-atom systems or highly symmetric molecules. Our method entails no additional computational cost, such that ETFs are “built-in,” and it is equivalent to a …