Expanding the set of stable, accurate, and scalable methods for simulating molecular quantum dynamics is important for accelerating the computational exploration of molecular processes. In this paper, we adapt the signed particles Monte Carlo algorithm for solving the transient Wigner equation to scenarios of chemical interest. This approach was used in the past to study electronic processes in semi-conductors, but to the best of our knowledge, it had never been applied to molecular modeling. We present the algorithm and demonstrate its excellent performance on harmonic and double well potentials for electronic and nuclear systems. We explore the stability of the algorithm, discuss the choice of hyper-parameters, and cautiously speculate that it may be used in quantum molecular dynamics simulations.
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