Abstract
The mixed quantum-classical dynamical simulation is essential to study nonadiabatic phenomena in photophysics and photochemistry. In recent years, many machine learning models have been developed to predict potential energy surfaces in the ground and excited electronic states effectively, which accelerates the time evolution of the nuclear subsystem. Herein, we implement long short-term memory (LSTM) networks as a propagator to accelerate the time evolution of the electronic subsystem during the fewest-switch surface hopping (FSSH) simulations. A small number of reference trajectories are generated using the original FSSH method, and then the LSTM networks can be constructed, followed by careful examination of typical LSTM-FSSH trajectories that employ the same initial condition and random numbers as the corresponding reference. The constructed network is applied to FSSH to further produce a trajectory ensemble to reveal the mechanism of nonadiabatic processes. Taking Tully's three models as test systems, the collective results can be reproduced qualitatively. Taking Tully's three models as test systems, the collective results can be reproduced qualitatively. This work demonstrates that LSTM is applicable to the most popular surface hopping simulations.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.13780
