Revealing possible long-living coherence in ultrafast processes allows detecting genuine quantum mechanical effects in molecules. To investigate such effects from a quantum chemistry perspective, we have developed a method for simulating the time evolution of molecular systems based on ab initio calculations, which includes relaxation and environment-induced dephasing of the molecular wave function whose rates are external parameters. The proposed approach combines a quantum chemistry description of the molecular target with a real-time propagation scheme within the time-dependent stochastic Schrödinger equation. Moreover, it allows a quantitative characterization of the state and dynamics coherence through the l1-norm of coherence and the linear entropy, respectively. To test the approach, we have simulated femtosecond pulse-shaping ultrafast spectroscopy of terrylenediimide, a well-studied fluorophore in single-molecule spectroscopy. Our approach is able to reproduce the experimental findings [R. Hildner et al., Nat. Phys. 7, 172 (2011)], confirming the usefulness of the approach and the correctness of the implementation.
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