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Prediction Challenge: Simulating Rydberg Photoexcited Cyclobutanone with Surface Hopping Dynamics based on Different Electronic Structure Methods

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This research examines the nonadiabatic dynamics of cyclobutanone after excitation into the n → 3s Rydberg S2 state. It stems from our contribution to the Special Topic of the Journal of Chemical Physics to test the predictive capability of computational chemistry against unseen experimental data. Decoherence-corrected fewest-switches surface hopping was used to simulate nonadiabatic dynamics with full and approximated nonadiabatic couplings. Several simulation sets were computed with different electronic structure methods, including a multiconfigurational wavefunction [multiconfigurational self-consistent field (MCSCF)] specially built to describe dissociative channels, multireference semiempirical approach, time-dependent density functional theory, algebraic diagrammatic construction, and coupled cluster. MCSCF dynamics predicts a slow deactivation of the S2 state (10 ps), followed by an ultrafast population transfer from S1 to S0 (<100 fs). CO elimination (C3 channel) dominates over C2H4 formation (C2 channel). These findings radically differ from the other methods, which predicted S2 lifetimes 10–250 times shorter and C2 channel predominance. These results suggest that routine electronic structure methods may hold low predictive power for the outcome of nonadiabatic dynamics.

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hal-04548371 , version 1 (16-04-2024)

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Saikat Mukherjee, Rafael S Mattos, Josene M Toldo, Hans Lischka, Mario Barbatti. Prediction Challenge: Simulating Rydberg Photoexcited Cyclobutanone with Surface Hopping Dynamics based on Different Electronic Structure Methods. Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024, 160, ⟨10.1063/5.0203636⟩. ⟨hal-04548371⟩
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