Fermi's golden rule rate expression for transitions due to nonadiabatic derivative couplings in the adiabatic basis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02697v1
• Date: Sat, 4 May 2024 15:34:54 GMT
• Title: Fermi's golden rule rate expression for transitions due to nonadiabatic derivative couplings in the adiabatic basis
• Authors: Seogjoo J. Jang, Young Min Rhee,
• Abstract summary: We make careful consideration of nonadiabatic derivative coupling terms between adiabatic states. We derive a well-defined FGR rate expression based on a quasi-adiabatic approximation. The resulting rate expression includes terms due to quadratic contribution of NDC terms and also their couplings to Franck-Condon modes.
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• Abstract: Starting from a compact but general molecular Hamiltonian expressed in the bases of adiabatic electronic states and position states of nuclei, we make careful consideration of nonadiabatic derivative coupling (NDC) terms between adiabatic states. It is clarified that the conventional use of NDC terms evaluated for an adiabatic electronic state in the textbook expression for the Fermi's golden rule (FGR) rate implicitly invokes an additional approximation that ignores non-orthogonality of adiabatic states at different geometries. Thus, we derive a well-defined FGR rate expression based on a quasi-adiabatic approximation that explicitly uses the adiabatic states and NDC terms evaluated at the minimum potential energy state of the initial adiabatic states. We then clarify conditions and approximations leading to the modeling of all the nuclear degrees of freedom as a set of harmonic oscillators, and then derive a closed form FGR rate expression while accounting for the non-Condon effects due to momenta in NDC terms explicitly. The resulting rate expression includes terms due to quadratic contribution of NDC terms and also their couplings to Franck-Condon modes. Model calculations for the case where nuclear vibrations consist of both a sharp high frequency mode and a broad Ohmic bath spectral density illustrate new features and implications of the rate expression.

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