Thermofield dynamics is an exactly correct formulation of quantum mechanics at finite temperature in which a wavefunction is governed by an effective temperature-dependent quantum Hamiltonian. The optimized mean trajectory (OMT) approximation allows the calculation of spectroscopic response functions from trajectories produced by the classical limit of a mapping Hamiltonian that includes physical nuclear degrees of freedom and other effective degrees of freedom representing discrete vibronic states. Here, we develop a thermofield OMT (TF-OMT) approach in which the OMT procedure is applied to a temperature-dependent classical Hamiltonian determined from the thermofield-transformed quantum mapping Hamiltonian. Initial conditions for bath nuclear degrees of freedom are sampled from a zero-temperature distribution. Calculations of two-dimensional electronic spectra and two-dimensional vibrational–electronic spectra are performed for models that include excitonically coupled electronic states. The TF-OMT calculations agree very closely with the corresponding OMT results, which, in turn, represent well benchmark calculations with the hierarchical equations of motion method.
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28 March 2022
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March 24 2022
Two-dimensional vibronic spectroscopy with semiclassical thermofield dynamics
Special Collection:
Time-resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy
Kritanjan Polley;
Kritanjan Polley
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Baker Laboratory, Cornell University
, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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Roger F. Loring
Roger F. Loring
a)
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Baker Laboratory, Cornell University
, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: roger.loring@cornell.edu
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a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: roger.loring@cornell.edu
Note: This paper is part of the JCP Special Topic on Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy.
J. Chem. Phys. 156, 124108 (2022)
Article history
Received:
December 30 2021
Accepted:
March 08 2022
Citation
Kritanjan Polley, Roger F. Loring; Two-dimensional vibronic spectroscopy with semiclassical thermofield dynamics. J. Chem. Phys. 28 March 2022; 156 (12): 124108. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0083868
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